Nexenta Assigned Patent

Nexenta Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,507,812) developed by Bestler, Caitlin, Sunnyvale, CA, and Aizman, Alexander, Mt. View, CA, for a “systems and methods for scalable object storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present disclosure provides an advantageous systems and related methods for scalable object storage. One embodiment relates to a system that includes at least a manifest tracking subsystem and a chunk payload subsystem. The manifest tracking subsystem stores version manifests and encodes forward-references from the version manifests to chunks. The chunk payload subsystem stores the chunks and encodes back-references to version manifests that reference the chunk. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed.“

The patent application was filed on April 22, 2014 (14/258,791).