ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,290, issued on July 1, was assigned to Qumulo Inc. (Seattle).
"Workload allocation for file system maintenance" was invented by Steven Henry Haber (Seattle), Noah Trent Nelson (Seattle) and Thomas Scott Urban (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to workload allocation for file system maintenance. A file system that includes storage nodes and snapshots may be provided such that each snapshot may be associated with a plurality of data blocks. If snapshots are deleted further actions may be performed, including: determining the dead blocks associated with the deleted snapshots such that each dead block may be ...