Virtuozzo International Assigned Patent
Multiqueued access to cloud storage
By Francis Pelletier | July 2, 2021 at 2:30 pmVirtuozzo International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (11,029,869) developed by Patlasov, Maxim, Seattle, WA, Kuznetzov, Alexey, Emelyanov, Pavel, Moscow, Russia, and Kobets, Alexey, Seattle, WA, for “system and method for multiqueued access to cloud storage.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Systems and methods are disclosed herein for multithreaded access to cloud storage. An exemplary method comprises creating a plurality of mount points by mounting, by a hardware processor, a plurality of file systems on a computer system, creating an image file on each of the plurality of mount points, instantiating, for each of the plurality of mount points, a block device on the image file, creating a union virtual block device that creates one or more stripes from each block device, delegating a request for accessing the union virtual block device, received from a client, to one or more block devices and merging a result of the request from each of the one or more block devices and providing the result to the client.”
The patent application was filed on December 28, 2018 (Appl. No.16/235,579).