Weka.IO Assigned Two Patents

Data migration in distributive file system
Weka.IO Ltd., Israel, has been assigned a patent (11693818) developed by Ben Dayan, Maor, Palmon, Omri, Zvibel, Liran, and Arditti, Kanael, Tel Aviv, Israel, for a “data migration in a distributive file 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. A plurality of failure resilient address spaces are distributed across the plurality of storage devices such that each of the plurality of failure resilient address spaces spans a plurality of the storage devices. The plurality of computing devices maintains metadata that maps each failure resilient address space to one of the plurality of computing devices. The metadata is grouped into buckets. Each bucket is stored in the backend of a computing device. Data may be migrated from an external file system to the plurality of storage devices using inode stubs to represent directories and files of the external file system. As the contents of the external file system are copied, the inode stubs are replaced with real inode.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-10-08 (17/496924).

Authenticated stateless mount string for distributed file system
Weka.IO Ltd., Israel, has been assigned a patent (11693581) developed by Ben Dayan, Maor, Palmon, Omri, and Zvibel, Liran, Tel Aviv, Israel, for an “authenticated stateless mount string for a distributed file system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A cluster of one or more computing devices is operably coupled to a plurality of storage devices. Each computing device in the cluster comprises a frontend and a backend. The backend comprises a plurality of buckets. Each bucket is operable to build a failure-protected stipe that spans two or more of the plurality of the storage devices. A file system comprises one or more failure-protected stipes. A client other than the one or more computing devices in the cluster is operable to access at least a portion of the file system via a stateless mount string comprising a cryptographically-signed key.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-04-11 (17/717830).