US Patent Issued to EMC IP Holding on May 27 for "Cold tiering microservice for deduplicated data" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,140, issued on May 27, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Cold tiering microservice for deduplicated data" was invented by Nicholas A. Noto (Saratoga, Calif.), Tipper Truong (San Jose, Calif.) and Philip N. Shilane (Newtown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes identifying objects that each include one or more segments to be transferred from a source storage tier to a target storage tier, determining a total amount of data to be transferred, using a tiering controller to create worker nodes operable to transfer the segments to the target storage tier, where a number of worker nodes c...