Qumulo Assigned Patent

Qumulo, Inc., Seattle, WA, has been assigned a patent (10,474,635) developed by Unger, Thomas R., Youngblut, Eric E., Rothschilds, Thomas Gregory, Seattle, WA, and Drouillard, Jeremy, Bellevue, WA, for “dynamic evaluation and selection of file system pre-fetch policy.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Embodiments are directed to managing data in a file system. An engine may receive read requests associated with a file system that includes pre-fetch storage and file storage. The engine may employ a pre-fetch policy selected from a plurality of pre-fetch policies to copy blocks to pre-fetch storage. The engine may evaluate the selected pre-fetch policy and also evaluate simulated performances for each unselected pre-fetch policy based on subsequent read requests. The engine may provide a performance score based on the evaluation of the selected pre-fetch policy and it may provide other performance scores based on the simulated evaluation of each unselected pre-fetch policy If one of the other performance scores for one of the unselected pre-fetch policies exceeds the performance score of the selected pre-fetch policy, the engine may select that unselected pre-fetch policies as a new selected pre-fetch policy.”

The patent application was filed on December 21, 2018 (16/231,354).