Red Hat Assigned Two Patents

Mechanisms for reproducing storage system metadata inconsistencies
in test environment
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC, has been assigned a patent (10,108,537) developed by Cantrell, Jr., David L., Medford, MA, and Lumens, Christopher E., Merrimack, NH, for “mechanisms for reproducing storage system metadata inconsistencies in a test environment.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Mechanisms for recreating a first inconsistency in storage system metadata encountered by an installation module during a software installation process on a first computing device are provided. A test computing device accesses on a remote storage device inconsistent storage system metadata associated with the first computing device. The inconsistent storage system metadata includes a plurality of storage system metadata segments, location information that identifies corresponding locations of the respective storage system metadata segments on at least one storage device of the first computing device, and length information that identifies corresponding lengths of the respective storage system metadata segments. For each respective storage system metadata segment of the plurality of storage system metadata segments, the respective storage system metadata segment is stored at the corresponding location on a first test storage device of a test computing device.”

The patent application was filed on May 25, 2016 (15/164,522).

Replicating group of data objects within storage network
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC, has been assigned a patent (10,108,500) developed by Darcy, Jeffrey, Lexington, MA, for a “replicating a group of data objects within a storage network.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Embodiments relate to systems and methods for replicating a group of data objects within a storage network. In particular, a module can designate an object in the storage network as an anchor object. The module can further evaluate a replication policy of the anchor object to determine a destination resource on which to replicate a related group of data objects. Further, the module can located the related group of data objects, and define a replication policy on each of the data objects that specifies that each of the data objects follow the anchor object. The module can replicate each of the data objects as well as the anchor object on the destination resource.”

The patent application was filed on November 30, 2010 (12/956,527).