Virtuozzo International Assigned Patent

Virtuozzo International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,783,136) developed by Volkov, Oleg, Moscow, Russia, Kobets, Alexey, Seattle, WA, Zaytsev, Andrey, Korotaev, Kirill, and Ivanichkina, Ludmila, Moscow, Russia, for a “management of garbage data in distributed systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Method for writing objects into an object storage. Performing, on a protocol end point: receiving a client request for inserting an object into the object storage, wherein the object has a name and object data, generating a unique ID (UID) for the object, sending, to a name server, NS, a request for creating a guard entry (GE). The GE has a lifetime that defines when the name-object pair is inserted into the object storage. A request to an object server (OS) atomically creates a Garbage Collection Entry and assigns space for the object data. The GCE has a lifetime that defines when the object data is inserted into the object storage, sending, to the OS, object data for writing to storage, sending, to the NS, a request for writing the name, and sending response to the client, to report success after requests to the NS and the OS are successful.”

The patent application was filed on February 28, 2017 (15/445,858).