Red Hat Assigned Three Patents

Shared locking for storage centric exclusive locks
Red Hat Israel, Ltd., Raanana, Israel, has been assigned a patent (9,542,237) developed by Baron, Ayal, Kiryat Ono, Israel, Simoncelli, Federico, Fano, Israel, and Warszawski, Eduardo, Kfar Saba, Israel, for a “shared locking for storage centric exclusive locks.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A computing device receives a request from a host for a shared lock on a resource. The computing device obtains an exclusive lock on the resource using a locking data structure that is stored on the storage domain. The computing device subsequently obtains a shared lock on the resource for the host by writing a flag to the locking data structure, wherein the flag indicates that the host has the shared lock on the resource. The computing device then releases the exclusive lock on the resource.“

The patent application was filed on September 4, 2012 (13/602,779).

Flexible holding storage during messaging
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC, has been assigned a patent (9,537,810) developed by Svoboda, Rostislav, (hacek over, S) lapanice, Czech Republic, Slavicek, Pavel, and Nguyen, Filip, Brno, Czech Republic, for a “system and method for flexible holding storage during messaging.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system and method of flexible holding storage during messaging includes determining one or more properties of a message, the message to be stored in a holding storage area of a messaging system, determining status of one or more candidate holding storage devices, determining one or more storage selection rules, adjusting the one or more storage selection rules based on information associated with the status of the one or more candidate holding storage devices, and selecting a holding storage device for the message from the candidate holding storage devices based on the adjusted storage selection rules and information associated with the properties of the message. The one or more storage selection rules express preferences among the one or more candidate holding storage devices. In some examples, the system and method further include sending the message to the selected holding storage device.“

The patent application was filed on August 14, 2013 (13/967,139).

Pro-active self-healing in distributed file system
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC, has been assigned a patent (9,529,817) developed by Karampuri, Pranith Kumar, Jeedimetla, India, Avati, Anand Vishweswaran, Mysore, India, and Bellur, Vijay, Bangalore, India, for a “pro-active self-healing in a distributed file system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Techniques for pro-active self-healing in a distributed file system are disclosure herein. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided. The method comprises prior to detecting an access request by a client application to an image on a storage server, identifying, by a self-healing daemon executed by a processing device, a first region of the image comprising stale data. A partial lock on the image is acquired. The partial lock prevents access to the first region of the image. Responsive to acquiring the partial lock, the self-healing daemon provides access to a second region of the image file comprising data other than the stale data.“

The patent application was filed on March 31, 2016 (15/087,072).