Vast Data Assigned Patent

Vast Data Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel, has been assigned a patent (12386812) developed by Goren; Avi, Vaknin; Yogev, Yellin; Ido, Keren; Guy, and Steinberg; Ilan, Tel Aviv, Israel, for “lost write responses.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for managing lost content change requests (CCRs), the method includes (i) maintaining, by compute entities of a second storage system (SSS), states of executions of multiple CCRs of multiple categories and of multiple SSS reception times; (ii) receiving, from a first storage system (FSS), at a failure indication reception time (FIRT), a failure indication that is indicative of a certain category of the multiple categories. The certain category is associated with a failure of the FSS to receive a response, from the SSS, to a certain CCR of the certain category, that was presumably sent from the FSS to the SSS; (iii) determining, based on states of executions that are related at least to the certain category, when the SSS has completed to execute all CCRs of at least the certain category that were received by the SSS up to the FIRT; and (iv) transmitting, by the SSS, a SSS completion indication that indicates that the SSS has completed to execute all tasks that were received by the SSS up to the FIRT.”

The patent application was filed on 2023-10-19 (18/490730).