US Patent Issued to VMware on March 25 for "Converting the format of a distributed object storage with reduced write operations" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,105, issued on March 25, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Converting the format of a distributed object storage with reduced write operations" was invented by Ruiling Dou (Shanghai), Tao Xie (Shanghai), Zongliang Li (Shanghai), Asit Desai (Cupertino, Calif.), Wenguang Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Litao Xia (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure herein describes converting a disk cluster to a different format. A format conversion instruction associated with a disk cluster is received. A first subgroup of disks of the disk cluster that are the emptiest disks of the disk cluster are identified and all...