ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,726, issued on May 20, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Data preservation for node evacuation in unstable nodes within a mesh" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland) and Pierre-Yves Chibon (Saint-Pol-de-Leon, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a system and method that includes rerouting incoming data of a node to a first destination in response to determining that the node is in an unstable state, and evacuating data stored in the node to a second destination. Each destination of the first destination and the second destination comprises at least one of a persistent volume, a cloud storage, o...