Scality Assigned Patent

Scality, S.A., Paris, France, has been assigned a patent (10,248,682) developed by Regni, Giorgio, Oakland, CA, Rancurel, Vianney, La Frette s/Seine, France, Pineau, David, Sartrouville, France, Gimenez, Guillaume, Joinville le Pont, France, Saffroy, Jean-Marc, Paris, France, Artuso, Benoit, Chanteloup les Vignes, France, and Verma, Mudit, New Delhi, India, for an “object storage system capable of performing snapshots, branches and locking.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An apparatus is described including a large scale distributed storage system. The large scale distributed storage system includes an object store. The large scale distributed storage system includes a plurality of connector nodes coupled to the object store. The connector nodes are to provide access to the object store for respective users that are respectively coupled to the connector nodes. The connector nodes are to provide the following services for the respective users: a snapshot of a storage system implemented within said object store, branching from a snapshot taken of said storage system implemented within said object store, locking of information kept within said storage system implemented within said object store.”

The patent application was filed on February 20, 2015 (14/627,954).