Weka.IO Assigned Six Patents

Metadata control in load-balanced distributed storage system
Weka.IO Ltd., has been assigned a patent (11847098) developed by Ben Dayan, Maor, Palmon, Omri, and Zvibel, Liran, Tel Aviv, Israel, for a “metadata control in a load-balanced distributed storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A plurality of computing devices are communicatively coupled to each other via a network, and each of the plurality of computing devices is operably coupled to one or more of a plurality of storage devices. A plurality of failure resilient address spaces are distributed across the plurality of storage devices such that each of the plurality of failure resilient address spaces spans a plurality of the storage devices. The plurality of computing devices maintains metadata that maps each failure resilient address space to one of the plurality of computing devices. The metadata is grouped into buckets. Each bucket is stored in a group of computing devices. However, only the leader of the group is able to directly access a particular bucket at any given time.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-12-01 (18/073080).

Rapid failure recovery for distributed storage
Weka.IO Ltd., has been assigned a patent (11822445) developed by Ben Dayan, Maor, Palmon, Omri, and Zvibel, Liran, Tel Aviv, Israel, for “methods and systems for rapid failure recovery for a distributed storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Methods and systems are provided for rapid failure recovery for a distributed storage system for failures by one or more nodes.”

The patent application was filed on 2023-01-10 (18/095245).

File operations in distributed storage
Weka.IO Ltd., has been assigned a patent (11809707) developed by Ben Dayan, Maor, Palmon, Omri, Zvibel, Liran, and Arditti, Kanael, Tel Aviv, Israel, for “file operations in a distributed storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A plurality of computing devices are communicatively coupled to each other via a network, and each of the plurality of computing devices is operably coupled to one or more of a plurality of storage devices. A plurality of failure resilient address spaces are distributed across the plurality of storage devices such that each of the plurality of failure resilient address spaces spans a plurality of the storage devices. The plurality of computing devices maintains metadata that maps each failure resilient address space to one of the plurality of computing devices. Each of the plurality of computing devices is operable to read from and write to a plurality of memory blocks, while maintaining an extent in metadata that maps the plurality of memory blocks to the failure resilient address space.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-08-27 (17/459663).

Management of file system requests in distributed storage system
Weka.IO Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel, has been assigned a patent (11797182) developed by Ben Dayan, Maor, Palmon, Omri, Zvibel, Liran, Arditti, Kanael, and Filiba, Tomer, Tel Aviv, Israel, for a “management of file system requests in a distributed storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A first computing device is part of a distributed electronic storage system (DESS) that also comprises one or more second computing devices. The first computing device comprises client process circuitry and DESS interface circuitry. The DESS interface circuitry is operable to: receive, from client process circuitry of the first computing device, a first client file system request that requires accessing a storage resource on one or more of the second computing devices, determine resources required for servicing of the first client file system request, generate a plurality of DESS file system requests for the first file system request, and transmit the plurality of DESS file system requests onto the one or more network links. How many such DESS file system requests are generated is determined based on the resources required for servicing the first client file system request.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-05-06 (17/313737).

Resiliency schemes for distributed storage systems
Weka.IO Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel, has been assigned a patent (11798124) developed by Ben Dayan, Maor, Palmon, Omri, Zvibel, Liran, Tel Aviv, Israel, for “resiliency schemes for distributed storage systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A plurality of computing devices are communicatively coupled to each other via a network, and each of the plurality of computing devices is operably coupled to one or more of a plurality of storage devices. A plurality of failure resilient stripes is distributed across the plurality of storage devices such that each of the plurality of failure resilient stripes spans a plurality of the storage devices. A graphics processing unit is operable to access data files from the failure resilient stripes, while bypassing a kernel page cache. Furthermore, these data files may be accessed in parallel by the graphics processing unit.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-11-17 (17/528475).

Directory structure for distributed storage system
Weka.IO Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel, has been assigned a patent (11782875) developed by Ben Dayan, Maor, Palmon, Omri, Zvibel, Liran, and Arditti, Kanael, Tel Aviv, Israel, for a “directory structure for a distributed storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A plurality of computing devices are communicatively coupled to each other via a network, and each of the plurality of computing devices is operably coupled to one or more flash storage devices. Each computing device is operable to access one or more memory blocks within the flash storage devices and maintain a directory structure for managing access to the memory. The directory structure may be adaptively resized according to the addition or removal of one or more associated files stored in memory.”

The patent application was filed on 2018-09-05 (16/121938).