ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,431, issued on March 11, was assigned to VAST DATA LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Handling case sensitivity of filenames" was invented by Oded Sonin (Tel Aviv, Israel), Dror Dayan (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Avi Goren (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for updating file system entity (FSE) metadata. The method may include receiving, by a first computing entity, a request to perform a case-sensitive FSE operation that comprises one of (a) adding a case-sensitive version of a name of a FSE to a data structure, or (b) deleting the case-sensitive version of the name of the FSE from the data structure, the data structure com...