Cohesity Assigned Patent

Cohesity, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,596,143) developed by Garg, Gaurav, Menlo Park, CA, and Madduri, Sashikanth, Mountain View, CA, for a “node discovery and cluster formation for a secondary storage appliance.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Techniques are disclosed for identifying ‘free’ compute nodes that have not been configured as a member of a secondary storage system. As disclosed, a node may automatically detect that it is a free node, i.e., one available to join a distributed computing cluster which provides the secondary storage system (or to form a new cluster). When a node detects that it is not part of a cluster, the node may build an initial network configuration and begin advertising itself as a free node. Once the initial network state is available, the node may broadcast advertisements observed by a management tool and joined to the secondary storage system.“

The patent application was filed on July 25, 2014 (14/341,397).