US Patent Issued to NetApp on Oct. 14 for "Prevention of residual data writes after non-graceful node failure in a cluster" (North Carolina, Kansas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,494, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Prevention of residual data writes after non-graceful node failure in a cluster" was invented by Clinton Douglas Knight (Apex, N.C.), Joseph Eli Webster (Wichita, Kan.) and Christopher Michael Reeder (Everett, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein enables a storage orchestrator controller to prevent residual data from being written to a storage volume when a node fails non-gracefully. In a particular example, a method includes determining a health status of nodes in the cluster and, in response to determining a node in the cluster ...