Technion Research and Development Foundation Assigned Patent

Technion Research and Development Foundation Ltd., Haifa, Israel, has been assigned a patent (11,138,226) developed by Shmueli, Oded, Nofit, Israel, and Shaked, Itai, Jerusalem, Israel, for “moving replicated data in a cloud environment.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods are provided for moving replicas of a target data object between a plurality of storage nodes that store multiple replicated data objects, by setting new applications to a move mode, waiting for prior applications to exit before moving the target data object, determining that an indication of access to the target data object is done, and responsively copying the replicas of the target data object from first locations among the plurality of data storage nodes to second locations among the plurality of storage nodes.”

The patent application was filed on April 5, 2018 (16/603,563).