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Datera Assigned Patent

Improved advertisement of dynamic storage endpoints and storage control endpoints

Datera, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,277,472) developed by Millner, Robert Louis, San Jose, CA, for “system and method for improved advertisement of dynamic storage endpoints and storage control endpoints.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: The present invention provides a system and method that improves efficiency and resilience of the communications between clients and nodes, and between the nodes of a distributed, scale-out storage system by participating in the topology of an L3 network. The present disclosure relates to a device in a network. The receiving module is configured to receive information associated with the storage endpoints advertised by nodes of the network, wherein the information is an IP address associated with the storage endpoints or removal and/or updation of the IP address of the storage endpoints. The update module is configured to summarize or re-advertise the information received from the one or more nodes, and advertise the summarized or re-advertised information to all nodes of the network to be utilized by the one or more nodes to achieve communication between the node and the storage endpoint based on the summarized or re-advertised information.

The patent application was filed on June 9, 2017 (15/619,341).

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