Vast Data Assigned Patent

Vast Data Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel, has been assigned a patent (12105671) developed by Goren; Avi, Levy; Asaf, Hallak; Renen, Gordon; Eyal, and Vaknin; Yogev, Tel Aviv, Israel, for a “global access to filesystem content.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for managing access to a shared file system entity (FSE), the method includes (i) managing access requests for reading and writing accessed parts of the FSE, by a current point of access storage system (POASS), the current POASS currently acts as a point of access (POA) for the access requests; wherein stored parts of the FSE are stored at multiple POASSs, the multiple POASSs comprise the current POASS and former POASSs; (ii) determining, by the current POASS and while managing the access requests, to store the stored parts of the FSE at a fewer number of the former POASSs; and (iii) reducing, by two or more of the former POASSs, the number of former POASSs that store the stored parts of the FSE.”

The patent application was filed on 2023-04-25 (18/306969).