Elastifile Assigned Patent

Elastifile Ltd., Herzliya, Israel, has been assigned a patent (10,474,629) developed by Frank, Shahar, Ramat Hasharon, Israel, and Ben-Ari, Amos, Yokneam Hamoshava, Israel, for “file systems with global and local naming.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method for data storage includes specifying a plurality of File Systems, (FSs) for use by multiple clients, including assigning to the FSs both respective global identifiers and respective client-specific names. The plurality of FSs is managed using the global identifiers, and files are stored for the clients in the FSs using the client-specific names.”

The patent application was filed on September 28, 2016 (15/278,040).