US Patent Issued to NetApp on July 21 for "Object and sequence number management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,171, issued on July 21, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Object and sequence number management" was invented by Ananthan Subramanian (San Ramon, Calif.), Sridevi Jantli (San Jose, Calif.), Anil Paul Thoppil (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Cheryl Marie Thompson (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Qinghua Zheng (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for orphan object detection, invalid sequence number detection, and asynchronous object cleanup. A storage system may store data within one or more tiers of storage, such as a storage tier (e.g., solid state storage and disks maintained by the storage system), a r...