US Patent Issued to NetApp on Sept. 30 for "Use of cluster-level redundancy within a cluster of a distributed storage management system to address node-level errors" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,215, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Use of cluster-level redundancy within a cluster of a distributed storage management system to address node-level errors" was invented by Wei Sun (Boulder, Colo.), Anil Paul Thoppil (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Anne Marie Vasu (Erie, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that make use of cluster-level redundancy within a distributed storage system to address various node-level error scenarios are provided. Rather than making use of a generalized one-size-fits-all approach in an effort to reduce complexity, an approach tailored to the node-level ...