US Patent Issued to NetApp on Feb. 17 for "Methods and systems for handling race conditions associated with a primary bias state in a distributed storage system" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,432, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NetApp Inc (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for handling race conditions associated with a primary bias state in a distributed storage system" was invented by Sohan Shetty (Bangalore, India), Anoop Vijayan (Karnataka, India), Akhil Kaushik (San Jose, Calif.) and Rohit Chaudhary (Uttar Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example, a computer-implemented method comprises initiating a first process for atomically setting the primary bias state with a first node of a primary storage cluster of a multi-site distributed storage system due to a temporary loss of connec...