ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,214, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Group based QoS policies for volumes" was invented by Austino Nicholas Longo (Lafayette, Colo.), Jared Cantwell (Boulder, Colo.) and Charles Randall (Longmont, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique provides efficient management of policies for objects of a distributed storage architecture configured to service storage requests issued by one or more clients of a storage cluster. The objects may include volumes for storing data served by storage nodes of the cluster and the policies may include quality of service (QoS) policies. The technique enables dy...