ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,688, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to VAST DATA LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Efficient transaction management" was invented by Hillel Costeff (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Asaf Levy (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for metadata blocks access, the method includes (i) accessing, following a reception of an access request, a metadata block related to a file system entity; the metadata block is associated with a transaction identifier that is indicative of a transaction that is a most recent transaction that modified the metadata block; (ii) traversing, starting from the metadata block, metadata blocks that are transacti...