Red Hat Assigned Patent

Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC, has been assigned a patent (8,630,979) developed by ManikSurtani, London, UK, and Adrian Cole, San Francisco, CA for a “non-blocking input output based storage.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An apparatus and a method operating on data at a server node of a data grid system with distributed cache. Data is copied to a network cloud of storage services remotely coupled to a server node with an asynchronous input output interface. The asynchronous input output interface is configured to asynchronously communicate with the network cloud of storage services. Confirmation that the data has been copied on the network cloud of storage services is received at the server node.”

The patent application was filed on Feb. 26, 2010 (12/714,017).