Vast Data Assigned Two Patents

Replicating file systems in remote object storages
Vast Data Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel, has been assigned a patent (11,379,411) developed by Zdornov, Vladimir, Kfar Saba, Israel, Levy, Asaf, Tel Aviv, Israel, Weissman, Asaf, Kiryat Ono, Israel, Dahan, Or, Karkur, Israel , and Costeff, Hillel, Tel-Aviv, Israel, for “system and method for replicating file systems in remote object storages.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system and method for replicating a file system. The method includes: copying a portion of the file system from a first storage, wherein the at least a portion of the file system includes underlying data and metadata, wherein the metadata includes pointers to the underlying data and metadata defining a file system hierarchy, partitioning the copied data of the file system into a plurality of blobs, wherein the plurality of blobs includes a plurality of data blobs and a plurality of metadata blobs, wherein each data blob includes at least one portion of the underlying data, generating a plurality of filter objects based on the copied data, wherein each filter object includes a list of metadata blobs, and storing the plurality of blobs and the plurality of filter objects in a second storage.”

The patent application was filed on October 27, 2020 (17/081,153).

Hierarchical workload allocation in storage
Vast Data Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel, has been assigned a patent (11,366,700) developed by Goren, Avi, Vaknin, Yogev, Levy, Asaf, and Sonin, Oded, Tel Aviv, Israel, for a “hierarchical workload allocation in a storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for hierarchical workload allocation in a storage system, the method may include determining to reallocate a compute workload of a current compute core of the storage system, wherein the current compute core is responsible for executing a workload allocation unit that comprises one or more first type shards, and reallocating the compute workload by (a) maintaining the responsibility of the current compute core for executing the workload allocation unit, and (b) reallocating at least one first type shard of the one or more first type shards to a new workload allocation unit that is allocated to a new compute core of new compute cores.”

The patent application was filed on June 16, 2021 (17/304,242).