US Patent Issued to Qumulo on Feb. 11 for "Global namespaces for distributed file systems" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,903, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Qumulo Inc. (Seattle).

"Global namespaces for distributed file systems" was invented by Thomas Gregory Rothschilds (Issaquah, Wash.), Aaron James Passey (San Rafael, Calif.) and Edward Carpenter (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to managing data in a file system. In response to a request from a client of a spoke file system to access file system items shared by a hub file system: determining a portion of the spoke file systems that may have an existing lock on the file system items; obtaining log entries from the portion of the spoke file systems such that the log...