HyperGrid (Formerly Gridstore) Assigned Patent

Gridstore/HyperGrid, Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,880,753) developed by Sawicki, Antoni, Mountain View, CA, Nowak, Tomasz, San Jose, CA, and Murphy, Kelly, Los Altos, CA, for a “write requests in a distributed storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Example data storage systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a method identifies data to be written to a shared storage system that includes multiple storage nodes. The method communicates a write operation vote request to each of the multiple storage nodes. The write operation vote request is associated with a data write operation to write the identified data to the shared storage system. A positive response is received from at least a portion of the multiple storage nodes. The data write operation is initiated in response to receiving positive responses from a quorum of the storage nodes.”

The patent application was filed on June 8, 2012 (13/492,615).