ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,903, issued on June 9, was assigned to CLOUDERA INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Snapshots for distributed object-based datastores" was invented by Prashant Pogde (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Siddharth Wagle (Saratoga, Calif.), Nandakumar Vadivelu (Bangalore, India) and Mukul Kumar Singh (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Snapshot or point-in-time image functionality improves the use of object-based datastores. An example system includes an object-based datastore and a metadata datastore associated with the object-based datastore. Instances of the metadata datastore each identify the distributed data blocks that respectively store t...