ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,468, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Composite aggregate architecture" was invented by Ananthan Subramanian (San Ramon, Calif.), Sriram Venketaraman (Bangalore, India), Ravikanth Dronamraju (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Mohit Gupta (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for providing a storage abstraction layer for a composite aggregate architecture. A storage abstraction layer is utilized as an indirection layer between a file system and a storage environment. The storage abstraction layer obtains characteristic of a plurality of storage providers that provide access t...