US Patent Issued to NetApp on May 27 for "Managing attributes in child nodes for a multi-part file" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,221, issued on May 27, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Managing attributes in child nodes for a multi-part file" was invented by Kartik Rathnakara (Bengaluru, India), Roy Matthew LeCates (Baden, Pa.), Sushrut Bhowmik (Cary, N.C.) and Richard Parvin Jernigan IV (Sewickley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches for setting file attributes in a distributed file system using a multipart file structure are described. A request to set attributes for one or more parts of a multipart file is received. In response to the request, a rectify indicator is set to indicate the attributes for the multipart file that are to ...