US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Remote durable logging for journaling file systems" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,097, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Remote durable logging for journaling file systems" was invented by James Edward Kinney Jr. (Seattle) and Khawaja Salman Shams (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A journaling file system may implement remote durable logging. Updates to a file system may be received, and log records describing the updates may be stored in a locally-accessible file system change log. The update may then be acknowledged as committed. The log records may then be sent to be stored in a network-based data store in a remote version of the file system change log. Once it may be...