Walmart Apollo Assigned Two Patents

File management for eDiscovery
Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR, has been assigned a patent (10,210,165) developed by Crews, Aaron David, Bentonville, AR, for a “file management for eDiscovery.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An ediscovery system filters a document corpus to identify a filtered document set. The filtered document set is further analyzed to identify a production document set. Documents of the document corpus are stored in one of online storage and nearline storage, nearline storage providing slower access times. Documents added to the production set and/or filtered document set are moved to online storage if not already present. A countdown is associated with each document in the online storage and the document is moved to nearline storage on expiration of the counter. For each document moved, a placeholder file is retained in online storage that includes searchable text of the document. Documents in the production set may have a countdown that is longer for documents in the filtered document set. Documents in the filtered document set may have a countdown that is longer than remaining documents in the document corpus.”

The patent application was filed on August 30, 2016 (15/251,717).

Distributive data storage
Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR, has been assigned a patent (10,209,901) developed by Sehgal, Charandeep, San Jose, CA, Bhat, Vikas, Newark, CA, Krishnan, Ganesh, Fremont, CA, and Kandaswamy, Venkatesh, San Ramon, CA, for “systems and methods for distributive data storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”In some embodiments, a method can comprise dividing an image into two or more portions and calculating a portion hash value for each portion of the two or more portions, each portion hash value for each portion of the two or more portions is different than an other portion hash value for other portions of the two or more portions. The method can further comprise creating one or more image portion replicas of each portion of the two or more portions by replicating each portion of the two or more portions by a replication factor, the one or more image portion replicas comprising the same portion hash value as each portion of the two or more portions. The method can further comprise sending the one or more image portion replicas to a distributive data storage cluster, the distributive data storage cluster comprising two or more storage nodes, and storing each of the one or more image portion replicas in the two or more storage nodes. Other embodiments of related methods and systems are also provided.”

The patent application was filed on January 4, 2017 (15/398,034).