US Patent Issued to Cohesity on Dec. 2 for "Efficient file system directory reverse name lookup" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,967, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cohesity Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Efficient file system directory reverse name lookup" was invented by Siddesh Shinde (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhihuan Qiu (Lake Oswego, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for efficient file system directory reverse name lookup. An example method includes storing, at one or more of a plurality of storage locations of a key map, a file system directory including one or more key-value pairs, wherein each key-value pair of the file system directory maps a respective object identifier to corresponding object metadata; and in response to dete...