ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,440, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Write sharing method for a cluster filesystem" was invented by Enci Zhong (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Frank Schmuck (Campbell, Calif.), John Lewars (New Paltz, N.Y.) and D Scott Guthridge (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer technology for use with a computer data storage system including a plurality of client computers and a plurality of collector nodes. A file consists of data blocks with each block resides on one of the persistent storage device. Data received at client computers are buffered and then transferred to select...