US Patent Issued to NETAPP on March 25 for "Synchronous object placement for information lifecycle management" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,848, issued on March 25, was assigned to NETAPP INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Synchronous object placement for information lifecycle management" was invented by Robin Mahony (Vancouver, Canada), Oliver Seiler (Vancouver, Canada), Blake Edwards (Vancouver, Canada), Vladimir Avram (Vancouver, Canada), Gregory Kent (Vancouver, Canada) and Chong Zhao (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed storage system may synchronously apply an Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) policy to objects at ingest. In one embodiment of synchronous ILM, three options are available for a user: balanced, strict, and dual commit. Dual com...