Ctera Assigned Patent

Ctera Networks, Ltd., Petach-Tikva, Israel, has been assigned a patent (10,296,595) developed by Brand, Aron, Petach-Tikva, Israel, for “multi-level namespace management system and method thereof for hybrid cloud storage systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A multi-level namespace management system. The system comprises a processing unit, and a memory, the memory containing instructions that, when executed by the processing unit, configure the namespace management system to: maintain a plurality of multi-level namespaces for data stored by a storage system, wherein each of the plurality of multi-level namespaces designates at least one of: at least one personal folder of a user, at least one shared-folder being shared with the user by other users, and at least one project namespace designating at least one project folder that is accessible by the user, and maintain for each of the plurality of multi-level namespaces, an escalation policy enabling a potential escalation of the at least one personal folder to the at least one project namespace, thereby allowing the at least one personal folder to be viewed and accessed throughout a hierarchy of the at least one project namespace.”

The patent application was filed on May 12, 2015 (14/709,902).