Qumulo Assigned Two Patents

Analyzing and visualizing trends in use and consumption of data in shared storage
Qumulo, Inc., Seattle, WA, has been assigned a patent (10,318,494) developed by Krasnow, Michael Adam, Wright, Eric Jonathan, Liau, Michael, Han, Alixandra Ming-Yi, and Unger, Thomas R., Seattle, WA, for “analyzing and visualizing trends in the use and consumption of data in a shared storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A facility comprising methods and systems for analyzing and visualizing trends in the usage of data within a shared storage filesystem is disclosed. The facility analyzes the rate at which the filesystem or a portion thereof is used by periodically generating manifests of the usage of the filesystem and comparing one manifest to another manifest. Furthermore, the facility may store additional information relevant to the manifest, such as the time at which the manifest was taken, for each directory, the sum of all of the values determined for items in that directory, including any subdirectories, and so on. In this manner, the facility collects and stores information relevant to developing trend information for each item in the filesystem. The trends analysis and visualizations described herein provide quick insight into the changes deemed most interesting or significant between two times.”

The patent application was filed on October 7, 2016 (15/288,853).

Triggering increased collection and distribution of monitoring information in distributed processing
Qumulo, Inc., Seattle, WA, has been assigned a patent (10,318,401) developed by Rothschilds, Thomas, Bernotavicius, Remi, Seattle, WA, Brow, Edward, Boulder, CO, and Ehlhardt, William, Seattle, WA, for a “triggering the increased collection and distribution of monitoring information in a distributed processing system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A facility comprising systems and method for automatically triggering the collection of comprehensive monitoring information in a distributed processing system. The facility compares the overall performance of distributed processing system to one or more performance metrics and, in response to determining that one or more performance metrics is not satisfied, triggers one or more of the nodes within the distributed processing system to increase one or more of its monitoring rate or its distribution rate. The facility collects and analyzes the collected information to provide resources that can be used to assess and diagnose failures within the distributed processing system. In this manner, the facility reacts to performance anomalies by triggering nodes within in the system to provide comprehensive performance information over a trigger period for diagnostic purposes.”

The patent application was filed on April 19, 2018 (15/957,809).