US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on April 7 for "Corrupted bucket handling in a peer cluster" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,618, issued on April 7, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Corrupted bucket handling in a peer cluster" was invented by Sayantan Bhattacharyya (Sydney), Wendi Qiu (Norwest, Australia) and Christopher Michael Sutton (North Ryde, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recovering corrupted buckets in a peer cluster is presented. A cluster manager sends a request to peer nodes storing bucket copies corresponding to a corrupted bucket to report bucket health metrics of the respective bucket copies. The peer nodes rebuild the respective bucket copies and report updated bucket health metrics correspond...