US Patent Issued to Cohesity on Aug. 5 for "Distributed fair allocation of shared resources to constituents of a cluster" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,833, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Cohesity Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Distributed fair allocation of shared resources to constituents of a cluster" was invented by Mohit Aron (Saratoga, Calif.), Vinay Reddy (San Jose, Calif.) and Ravi Gadde (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for allocating shared resources to nodes in a distributed computing network system. Nodes request a lock for each instance of a computing resource (e.g., a virtual IP address associated with a service provided by the distributed computing network system) from a distributed lock manager. The distributed lock manager ma...