Plumgrid Assigned Patent

Plumgrid, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,436,716) developed by Starovoitov, Alexei, Los Gatos, CA, Singh, Sushil, Mountain View, CA, Monclus, Pere, and Nemat, Awais, San Jose, CA, for a “method and system for data plane abstraction to enable a network storage platform ecosystem.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for network storage by receiving, by a storage compiler, a first storage definition from a storage application developer, where the first storage definition describes a customized storage implementation for storing data in an abstraction of at least one physical storage device, compiling the first storage definition to generate a first customized storage implementation module, and loading the first customized storage implementation module into an IO engine. The first customized storage implementation module causes data to be stored in the at least one physical storage device differently than prior to loading the first customized storage implementation module in the IO engine.“

The patent application was filed on May 7, 2013 (13/888,534).