eBay Assigned Patent
Volume admission control for highly distributed data storage
By Francis Pelletier | March 7, 2019 at 2:25 pmeBay Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,203,894) developed by Rao, Vinay Pundalika, San Jose, CA, Lewis, Mark S., Pleasanton, CA, and Povzner, Anna, San Jose, CA, for a “volume admission control for a highly distributed data storage system.”
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A storage cluster in a computing network can operate according to a service-level agreement, (e.g., a set of performance conditions). The network can receive a request to register a new storage volume with the storage cluster. In response, the network may evaluate the current extent of replication of data in the storage cluster and how adding the new volume may affect the performance of the cluster to determine whether to register the new volume with the storage cluster.”
The patent application was filed on January 25, 2018 (15/879,765).
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