Pivotal Software Assigned Two Patents

Data management platform
Pivotal Software, Inc., San Francisco, CA has been assigned a patent (10,382,549) developed by Wale, Sumedh, Kumar, Neeraj, Mahararashtra, India, Smith, Daniel Allen, Ramnarayanan, Jagannathan, Portland, OR, Kumar, Suranjan, Pune, India, Bhanawat, Hemant, Maharashtra, India, and Baker, Anthony M., Sherwood, OR, for a “data management platform.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for distributed data management. One of the methods includes maintaining, by a first member in a distributed data management system having multiple computing members installed on multiple respective computers, a first garbage collection version vector that includes, for each member in the distributed data management system, a garbage collection version that represents a number of garbage collection processes performed by the member on a respective copy of a replicated data region maintained by the member in the data management system. If the first garbage collection version vector is different than a second garbage collection version vector received from a different provider member, a first replication process is performed that is different than a second replication process that is performed when the first garbage collection version vector matches the second garbage collection version vector.”

The patent application was filed on October 27, 2014 (14/524,340).

Backup and restore framework for distributed computing
Pivotal Software, Inc., San Francisco, CA has been assigned a patent (10,379,968) developed by Stowell, Therese Louise, London, Great Britain, Dudala, Kalyan Chakravarthy, San Francisco, CA, Humphreys, Colin Michael, Jones, Simon James, Naik, Jatin, London, Great Britain, Perez-Shirley, Alvaro, San Francisco, CA, and Stanley, Henry Arthur James, London, Great Britain, for “backup and restore framework for distributed computing systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Methods, systems, and computer readable media for backing up and restore a deployment on a cloud computing platform are described. A deployment on a cloud computing platform includes a set of virtual machines and corresponding disks. A deployment may include multiple subunits designated as deployment jobs. A respective job specification file specifies respective resources used by each deployment job. The resources include various scripts specifying actions to take before, during, and after a backup. A backup orchestrator, upon receiving a backup request for the deployment, executes the scripts in a pre-specified sequence ordered by script type. When a particular type of scripts executes, the corresponding script for each deployment job, if specified in the specification file to correspond to that type, executes. When all scripts of a particular type finish execution, scripts having a next type execute. Accordingly, the operations of backing up multiple deployment jobs are synchronized and orchestrated.”

The patent application was filed on May 5, 2017 (15/588,529).