EMC IP Holding/Dell Technologies and Triad National Security Assigned Patent

EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA, a Dell Technologies company, and Triad National Security, LLC, Los Alamos, NM, has been assigned a patent (10,628,391) developed by Bent, John M., Los Alamos, NM, Faibish, Sorin, Newton, MA, Ting, Dennis Pei Jean, Groton, MA, Gupta, Uday K., Westford, MA, Tzelnic, Percy, Cambridge, MA, Grider, Gary, and Bonnie, David J., Los Alamos, NM, for “method and system for reducing metadata overhead in a two-tier storage architecture.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Example embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, a system, and a computer program product for maintaining dynamically loadable namespaces. The method includes presenting, to an application, a file system having a global single namespace (SN) comprising a plurality of dynamically-loadable namespaces (DLNs) maintained in a capacity tier (CT) of object storage of a storage system. In response to a job submitted by the application, dynamically loading a first dynamically-loadable namespace, including the metadata only for the first dynamically-loadable namespace, associated with the job from the capacity tier of object storage into a fast tier (FT) of storage of the storage system.”

The patent application was filed on September 30, 2015 (14/870,968).