Robin Systems Assigned Patent

Robin Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,599,622) developed by Mukku, Jagadish Kumar, San Jose, CA, Alluboyina, Ravi Kumar, Santa Clara, CA, and Venkatesan, Dhanashankar, San Jose, CA, for “implementing storage volumes over multiple tiers.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A distributed storage system stores a storage volume as segments that are allocated as needed and assigned VSIDs according to a monotonically increasing counter. The storage volume may be provisioned by an orchestration layer that manages the storage volumes as well as containers executing executable components of the storage volume. A storage volume may be stored across multiple tiers with a storage node managing on which tier a segment is stored based on a volume tier policy and usage of the segments. The tiering policy may be used to relocate the entire storage volume to a tier, such as a cloud computing platform, after which an application may be restored on the tier. Segments on a tier with built in redundancy may be used as both primary and backup copies.”

The patent application was filed on July 31, 2018 (16/050,801).