V3 Systems Assigned Patent

V3 Systems Holdings, Inc., Draper, UT, has been assigned a patent (9,489,396) developed by Bookman, Peter, Sandy, UT, and Featherstone, Chris R., South Jordan, UT, for a “intermediation of hypervisor file system and storage device models.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A communication model in which application(s) above a hypervisor use a file system having one data access model, (e.g., a block-based file system) to access an underlying storage device having another data access model, (e.g., an object-based file system). This is accomplished via an intermediary component that converts input/output requests and responses from the file system data access model into the underlying storage device data access model, and vice versa. As an example, virtual machines operating a block-based file system using a hypervisor may interface through the intermediary component with an object-based storage device. Thus, the prolific use and availability of block-based file systems may be used compatibly with highly efficient object-based storage devices.“

The patent application was filed on July 1, 2011 (13/175,766).