US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Aug. 12 for "Detecting stale storage layouts without using client locks" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,793, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Detecting stale storage layouts without using client locks" was invented by Raghavendra Gowdappa (Bangalore, India) and Shyamsundar Ranganathan (Billerica, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for reducing locks on a storage layout of a distributed file system by detecting and notifying clients of stale storage layouts. An example method may comprise: receiving a request to modify a file system object associated with a storage layout, the request comprising an index range and the storage layout comprising an index range; determining whether the...