US Patent Issued to NetApp on Oct. 7 for "Methods and systems for negotiating a primary bias state in a distributed storage system" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,852, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for negotiating a primary bias state in a distributed storage system" was invented by Sohan Shetty (Bangalore, India), Anoop Vijayan (Karnataka, India), Akhil Kaushik (San Jose, Calif.) and Rohit Chaudhary (Uttar Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include negotiating a primary bias state for primary and secondary storage sites when a mediator is temporarily unavailable for a multi-site distributed storage system. In one example, a computer-implemented method comprises detecting, with the primary storage site havin...