Igneous Systems Assigned Patent

Igneous Systems, Inc., Seattle, WA, has been assigned a patent (9,276,900) developed by Daud, Asif Arif, Pilloud, Andrew Martin, and Wallace, Kevin Thomas, Seattle, WA, for a “network bootstrapping for a distributed storage system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Embodiments are directed towards configuring a distributed storage system over a network. Master computers and Subordinate computers may separate components of the distributed storage system. Each subordinate computer may perform actions when connected to the network. When the network provides for site-level multicasting, the subordinate computer broadcasts site-level multicast request(s) for a network address of master computer(s) assigned to that subordinate computer. When the network supports a local domain name system, (DNS) server, the subordinate computer provides a DNS query to the local DNS server to obtain from an external server the network address for the master computer(s) assigned to that subordinate computer. When then network supports a master computer as a DNS server, the subordinate computer provides the DNS query to the master computer DNS server to obtain from the external server the network address of the master computer(s) assigned to that subordinate computer.“

The patent application was filed on March 19, 2015 (14/663,359).