Weka.IO Assigned Patent
Efficient networking for distributed storage
By Francis Pelletier | December 8, 2022 at 2:00 pmWeka.IO Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel, has been assigned a patent (11494257) developed by Ben Dayan, Maor, Palmon, Omri, Zvibel, Liran, and Filiba, Tomer, Tel Aviv, Israel, for “efficient networking for a distributed storage system.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A plurality of computing devices are communicatively coupled to each other via a network, and each of the plurality of computing devices is operably coupled to one or more of a plurality of storage devices. Data communication is made more efficient by removing the need to copy data in the networking stack, using hardware accelerated end-to-end checksum calculation, and supporting transmission formatting of data and header for special cases.”
The patent application was filed on 2021-01-21 (17/154459).