US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on July 29 for "Avoiding directory contention in distributed filesystem replication" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,395, issued on July 29, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Avoiding directory contention in distributed filesystem replication" was invented by Evgeny Popovich (Port Coquitlam, Canada), Oliver Chung (Bellevue, Wash.) and Austin Voecks (Bainbridge Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology is generally directed towards replicating a filesystem namespace from a source system such as a source node cluster to a target system such as a target node cluster. Directory transfer tasks processed at the source are sent to the target build a replica of a hierarchical namespace on a target cluster, i...