Futurewei Technologies Assigned Patent

Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX, has been assigned a patent (9,104,717) developed by Verma, Ajit, Los Altos, CA, Plocher, John, San Jose, CA, and Ou, Xiongbing, Beijing, China, for a “distributed storage object delete.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”System and methods for storage object distribution using dynamic policy controls are provided. An embodiment method deleting an object in a distributed storage system includes receiving, from a client, a delete request for an object, retrieving, by a primary datacenter, an object metadata list corresponding to the object to be deleted, and inserting, by the primary datacenter, a delete marker on a top of a stack data structure in an object metadata list.“

The patent application was filed on January 31, 2013 (13/755,573).