Egnyte Assigned Patent
Implementing object storage infrastructure for cloud-based services
By Francis Pelletier | October 1, 2015 at 2:53 pmEgnyte, Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,135,269) developed by Shetty, Sachin, Mumbai-58, India, Sankar, Krishna, San Jose, CA, Jassal, Amrit, Morgan Hill, CA, Patel, Kalpesh, Flower Mound, TX, and Sharma, Shishir, Mountain View, CA, for a “system and method of implementing an object storage infrastructure for cloud-based services.”
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method for storing objects in an object storage system includes the steps of establishing a network connection with a client over an inter-network, receiving an upload request indicating an object to be uploaded by the client, selecting at least two storage nodes on which the object will be stored, receiving the object from the client via the network connection, and streaming the object to each of the selected storage nodes such that the object is stored on each of the selected storage nodes. The method can also include writing an object record associating the object and the selected storage nodes to a shard of an object database and generating a Universally Unique Identifier, UUID). The UUID indicates the shard and the object ID of the object record, such that the object record can be quickly retrieved. Object storage infrastructures are also disclosed.“
The patent application was filed on December 7, 2012 (13/708,040).