ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,962, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Metadata journal for a storage system" was invented by Gil Barash (Herzliya, Israel), Maya Leshem (Herzliya, Israel), Shlomi Apel (Herzliya, Israel) and Asaf Kariv (Herzliya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example includes receiving a read request specifying a target range and a target checkpoint, and executing a first query to retrieve a first entry of a metadata table. The first entry is a most recent entry of those entries that are older than the target checkpoint and record write ranges overlapping the target range. The e...