ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,959, issued on July 15, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Partial layout commit" was invented by Soumyadeep Sen (Summit, N.J.), JeanPierre Bono (Westboro, Mass.) and Sitaram Pawar (Shrewsbury, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Partial commits of file layouts can be performed and managed. In response to a file layout request from a client device (CD), a server can communicate, to CD, first extent list data, comprising a first mapping of a group of blocks, in a data store of the server, to which CD is able to write data to the file. CD can write, and track the writing of, data to first blocks, but not second blo...