Virtuozzo International Assigned Patent

Virtuozzo International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (11,016,684) developed by Emelyanov, Pavel, Monakhov, Dmitry, Moscow, Russia, and Kobets, Alexey, Seattle, WA, for “system and method for managing data and metadata where respective backing block devices are accessed based on whether request indicator indicates the data or the metadata and accessing the backing block devices without file system when the request indicator is not included in request.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosed herein are systems and method for managing blocks of data and metadata. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, receiving, by a virtual block device (VBD) a request from a file system, wherein the request includes one or more of: a type of operation requested by the file system, including one of a read operation or a write operation, and/or an indication as to whether the request is for a block of data or a metadata of the file system, when the request includes the indication as to whether the received request is for a block of data or a metadata, selecting, based on the indication, one of two or more separate storage locations associated with the requested block of data or a metadata respectively, and accessing the determined storage location to perform the requested operation on the block of data or the metadata in the storage location.”

The patent application was filed on December 28, 2018 (Appl. No.16/235,430).