US Patent Issued to Cloudera on July 29 for "Methods and apparatus to organize an object store namespace" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,462, issued on July 29, was assigned to Cloudera Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to organize an object store namespace" was invented by Prashant Pogde (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Siddharth Jivan Wagle (Saratoga, Calif.), Uma Maheswara Rao Gangumalla (Milpitas, Calif.) and Arpit Ashok Agarwal (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed examples create at least first and second database shards in a leader node, the leader node located in a consensus ring; and cause replication of first namespace metadata in the at least the first and second database shards of the leader node and in at least first and second ...