US Patent Issued to Google on June 3 for "Distributed file system for virtualized computing clusters" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,398, issued on June 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Distributed file system for virtualized computing clusters" was invented by Ezra N. Hoch (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Shahar Frank (Ramat Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes, in a computing system that runs clients on multiple interconnected compute nodes, running on the compute nodes respective virtual switches and respective virtual heads. Each client is provisioned to direct file access commands using one or more access protocols to a respective virtual head running on the compute node on which the client runs, via a respective virtu...