US Patent Issued to NetApp on March 3 for "Cross-grid replication within a distributed storage system" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,776, issued on March 3, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cross-grid replication within a distributed storage system" was invented by Song Guen Yoon (Surrey, Canada), Samuel Christian Veloso (Vancouver, Canada), Gregory Kent (Vancouver, Canada), Blake Edwards (Vancouver, Canada) and Oliver Seiler (Chilliwack, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to systems and methods for providing cross-grid replication within distributed storage systems. In an example, a method includes identifying an object for ingest into a first storage grid containing a first distrib...