ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,211, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Multi-protocol lock manager for distributed lock management" was invented by Shyamprasad Chaman (Bangalore, India), Rasmit Ranjan Swain (Bangalore, India), Ashwani Raina (Jammu, India), Ketan Pant (Bangalore, India) and Meharpraveen Maddineni (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for distributed lock and authorities management. An origin may host a resource, such as a file, that may be accessed by clients through a plurality of caches. The origin may receive a first retrieve request from a first endpoint to obtain a first autho...