Riverbed Assigned Patent

Riverbed Technology, Inc., San Francisco, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,208,031) developed by Mace, James E., San Francisco, CA, and Parab, Nitin, Menlo Park, CA, for a “log structured content addressable deduplicating storage.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A log structured content addressable deduplicated data storage system may be used to store deduplicated data. Data to be stored is partitioned into data segments. Each unique data segment is associated with a label. The storage system maintains a transaction log. Mutating storage operations are initiated by storing transaction records in the transaction log. Additional transaction records are stored in the log when storage operations are completed. Upon restarting an embodiment of the data storage system, the transaction records from the transaction logs are replayed to recreate the state of the data storage system. The data storage system updates file system metadata with transaction information while a storage operation associated with the file is being processed. This transaction information serves as atomically updated transaction commit points, allowing fully internally consistent snapshots of deduplicated volumes to be taken at any time.“

The patent application was filed on March 31, 2009 (12/416,067).