US Patent Issued to Rakuten Symphony on Jan. 20 for "Slice-level quorum verification for a distributed storage volume" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,151, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Rakuten Symphony Inc. (Tokyo).

"Slice-level quorum verification for a distributed storage volume" was invented by Ripulkumar Patel (San Mateo, Calif.) and Dhanashankar Venkatesan (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed storage system executes write commands with respect to a storage volume mounted to an operating context. The storage volume is composed of a plurality of slices, each of which includes a plurality replicas. If a quorum of replicas are not available to execute a write command referencing a slice, acknowledgment of the write command is suppressed. However, r...