ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,577, issued on May 5, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Method and apparatus for free space management" was invented by Mingkun Ni (Markham, Canada), Ronen Grosman (Markham, Canada), Kelvin Ho (Markham, Canada) and Kristian Robert Lejao (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method and apparatus for free space management in a distributed database. Each datanode of the database is assigned a free space map to manage free space. When a datanode requires additional storage space, a new free space map may be assigned to the datanode, a free space map of a different datanode may be shared...