US Patent Issued to NetApp on June 3 for "Methods and storage nodes to decrease delay in resuming input output (I/O) operations after a non-disruptive event for a storage object of a distributed storage system by utilizing asynchronous inflight replay of the I/O operations" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,627, issued on June 3, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and storage nodes to decrease delay in resuming input output (I/O) operations after a non-disruptive event for a storage object of a distributed storage system by utilizing asynchronous inflight replay of the I/O operations" was invented by Krishna Murthy Chandraiah Setty Narasingarayanapeta (Bangalore, India) and Akhil Kaushik (Bangalore Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method comprises maintaining state information regarding a data replication status for a storage object of the storage node of a primary storage cluster...