US Patent Issued to Data Direct Networks on March 3 for "Method and system for providing efficient metadata analytics in a distributed storage system" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,741, issued on March 3, was assigned to Data Direct Networks Inc. (Chatsworth, Calif.).

"Method and system for providing efficient metadata analytics in a distributed storage system" was invented by Hyogi Sim (Blacksburg, Va.), David Jones Craft (Durango, Colo.) and Konstantinos Chasapis (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system metadata exploration service is directly embedded in a distributed data storage system to enable presentation of structured system metadata using a relational data model and dynamic mapping of structured system metadata to relational tables, all without incurring an additional snapshot and c...