US Patent Issued to NetApp on June 30 for "Detached global scheduler" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,015, issued on June 30, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Detached global scheduler" was invented by Sivakumar Chandrasekaran (Fremont, Calif.), Vikash Kumar Jha (San Jose, Calif.), Pranith Kiran Kouda (San Jose, Calif.), Rujuta Antarkar (Fremont, Calif.), Anuja Inamdar (San Jose, Calif.), Raghvendra Dixit (San Jose, Calif.) and Ajay Kushwah (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed for a global scheduler that manages jobs across nodes of one or more clusters. The global scheduler receives a request to replicate a volume from a first storage node to a s...