Vast Data Assigned Two Patents

Leader election in distributed storage
Vast Data Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel, has been assigned a patent (11,064,051) developed by Yellin, Ido, Kfar Saba, Israel, Horev, Alon, Tel Aviv, Israel, Mintz, Yuval, Herzlyia, Israel, Turin, Alex, Kiryat Ono, Israel, and Hallak, Renen, Tenafly, NJ, for “system and method for leader election in distributed storage systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Systems and methods for leader election. A disclosed method includes sending, by a first compute node of a plurality of compute nodes, a plurality of remote procedure calls (RPCs) to a plurality of storage boxes according to an order, wherein each of the plurality of RPCs causes a leader election algorithm to execute in one of the plurality of storage boxes, and updating a state of the first compute node to ‘leader’ when a result of executing the leader election algorithm for each of the plurality of RPCs indicates that the first compute node is elected as a leader node.”

The patent application was filed on December 11, 2019 (Appl. No.16/710,416).

Providing improved efficiency snapshots using snaplines
Vast Data Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel, has been assigned a patent (11,061,569) developed by Hallak, Renen, Tenafly, NJ, Levy, Asaf, Goren, Avi, Tel Aviv, Israel, and Zdornov, Vladimir, Kfar Saba, Israel, for “method and system for providing improved efficiency snapshots using snaplines.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method for efficiently providing snapshots in storage systems. The method includes creating a plurality of snaplines for a storage system, each snapline having metadata including a timestamp and a status marker for each of a plurality of offset ranges, wherein each offset range corresponds to data stored in the storage system, the storage system including a plurality of compute nodes, wherein the timestamp of each snapline is a value of a global counter at a time of creation of the snapline, wherein the global counter is uniform among the plurality of compute nodes, and creating a snapshot based on the plurality of snaplines and a time value, wherein the snapshot indicates a snapline of the plurality of snaplines that is not to be deleted, wherein the timestamp of the snapline that is not to be deleted corresponds to the time value.”

The patent application was filed on January 7, 2019 (Appl. No.16/241,124).