Scality Assigned Patent

Scality S.A., Paris, France, has been assigned a patent (10,366,070) developed by Regni, Giorgio, Albany, CA, Rancurel, Vianney, La Frette s/Seine, France, and Verma, Mudit, New Delhi, India, for “locking and I/O improvements of systems built with distributed consistent database implementations within an object store.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A storage system is described. The storage system includes an object store having a plurality of objects containing information. The storage system also includes a cluster of locking nodes to implement a distributed synchronization locking mechanism. The cluster of locking nodes include a proposer node and a plurality of acceptor nodes. The proposer node to broadcast to the acceptor nodes a proposed lock on at least some of the information. The acceptor nodes to vote on the proposed lock based on respective locking information kept in a local store of each acceptor node.”

The patent application was filed on February 20, 2015 (14/627,962).