US Patent Issued to NetApp on March 11 for "Maintaining and recomputing reference counts in a persistent memory file system" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,376, issued on March 11, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Maintaining and recomputing reference counts in a persistent memory file system" was invented by Ananthan Subramanian (San Ramon, Calif.), Matthew Fontaine Curtis-Maury (Apex, N.C.) and Vinay Devadas (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for maintaining and recomputing reference counts in a persistent memory file system of a node. Primary reference counts are maintained for pages within persistent memory of the node. In response to receiving a first operation to link a page into a persistent memory file system of the persistent mem...