US Patent Issued to NetApp on July 22 for "Non-disruptive file movement within a distributed storage system" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,176, issued on July 22, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Non-disruptive file movement within a distributed storage system" was invented by Richard Parvin Jernigan IV (Sewickley, Pa.), Umeshkumar Vasantha Rajasekaran (Cranberry Township, Pa.), Ying-Hao Wang (Pittsburgh) and Yuyu Zhou (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches for providing a non-disruptive file move are disclosed. A request to move a target file from the first constituent to the second constituent is received. The file has an associated file handle. The target file in the first constituent is converted to a multipart file in the first consti...