Scality Assigned Patent

Scality, S.A., Paris, France, has been assigned a patent (9,524,302) developed by Regni, Giorgio, Albany, CA, Rancurel, Vianney, La Frette s/ Seine, France, Gimenez, Guillaume, Joinville le Pont, France, Saffroy, Jean-Marc, Paris, France, Pineau, David, Sartrouville, France, and Artuso, Benoit, Chanteloupe le Vignes, France, for a “distributed consistent database implementation within an object store.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage system is described. The storage system includes an object store having a plurality of objects to implement a quota policy or a part of a relational database. The plurality of objects include a first plurality of immutable objects, a second plurality of immutable objects and a head object. The first plurality of immutable objects contain information kept within the database. The second plurality of immutable objects contain a hierarchy of pages for accessing the first plurality of immutable objects. The plurality of objects also include a mutable object that contains a mapping table that maps identifiers of the pages to identifiers of objects of the second plurality of immutable objects. The information is one of: quota policy information, information within a table of a relational database, a stripe of a thin provisioned file.“

The patent application was filed on March 5, 2014 (14/198,486).