Hitachi Vantara Assigned Patent

Hitachi Vantara LLC, Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,691,637) developed by Badey, Zahra, Picken, Daniel, Palo Alto, CA, Smith, Jon, Bracknell, Great Britain, Aston, Chris, Hughenden Valley, Great Britain, Smith, Joseph, Reading, Great Britain, and Lal, Namita, Palo Alto, CA, for a “management of cloned objects in file systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The present disclosure relates to management of cloned objects and corresponding snapshot objects in file systems by a file server. Aspects may relate to one or more processes for managing file system objects of a file system in a data storage system comprising a file system server, wherein the file system server comprises: a computer system including a processor configured to execute an operating system and further software components executed on the operating system, and a programmable logic device interfacing with the computer system and including a file system management unit configured to manage a file system.”

The patent application was filed on February 5, 2015 (15/522,307).