Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas Assigned Patent

Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Forth, Heraklion, Greece, has been assigned a patent (10,257,274) developed by Bilas, Angelos, Heraklion, Greece, Fountoulakis, Markos, Crete, Greece, Papageorgiou, Spyros, Crete, Greece, and Farmakakis, Tryfon, Crete, Greece, for “tiered heterogeneous fast layer shared storage substrate apparatuses, methods, and systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A storage system for organizing and maintaining metadata in a distributed network. The system includes: a network, a plurality of distributed nodes configured to communicate through the network, a plurality of block devices configured to communicate with the plurality of distributed nodes through the network, and a management server configured to communicate with each of the plurality of distributed nodes and block devices and further configured to arbitrarily associate metadata and data to any of the plurality of distributed nodes such that a global copy of the metadata does not exist in one or more fixed locations known to all distributed nodes.”

The patent application was filed on September 15, 2015 (14/854,911).