US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 9 for "Systems and methods for managing data storage cluster synchronization" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,956, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for managing data storage cluster synchronization" was invented by Mathew George (Redmond, Wash.), Rajsekhar Das (Sammamish, Wash.) and Vladimir Petter (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some storage systems are configured with VDL (valid data length) type controls that are implemented on a per cluster basis and, in some instances, on a sub-cluster basis, rather than simply a per file basis. In some instances, per-cluster VDL metadata for the storage clusters is stored and referenced at the edge data volume ...