US Patent Issued to NetApp on Sept. 16 for "Block allocation for persistent memory during aggregate transition" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,038, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Block allocation for persistent memory during aggregate transition" was invented by Abdul Basit (Morrisville, N.C.), Ananthan Subramanian (San Ramon, Calif.), Ram Kesavan (Los Altos, Calif.) and Matthew Fontaine Curtis-Maury (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for block allocation for persistent memory during aggregate transition. In a high availability pair including first and second nodes, the first node makes a determination that control of a first aggregate is to transition from the first node to the second node. A portion of...