Cohesity Assigned Patent

Cohesity, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,339,101) developed by Gupta, Apurv, Santa Clara, CA, for “distributed write journals that support fast snapshotting for a distributed file system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Embodiments presented herein disclose techniques for capturing a snapshot of a file system object, (e.g., a file or a directory) that is associated with a write journal having outstanding data. A bridge process in a storage server receives a request to capture a snapshot of a file system object. The snapshot is a backup of a state of the file system object in a given point in time. Upon determining that the file system object has one or more outstanding updates recorded in a write journal, the bridge process generates a copy of the write journal. The bridge process captures the snapshot of the file system object. The bridge process also associates the copy of the write journal with the snapshot of the file system object.”

The patent application was filed on September 11, 2015 (14/852,332).