US Patent Issued to NetApp on May 13 for "Bottleneck management techniques using non-disruptive file movement mechanisms in distributed storage environments" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,942, issued on May 13, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Bottleneck management techniques using non-disruptive file movement mechanisms in distributed storage environments" was invented by Richard Parvin Jernigan IV (Sewickley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches to data flow bottleneck management using caching mechanisms in a distributed storage environment are disclosed. A read request is received by a first data storage node having a first set of interface module(s), a first set of data management module(s), a first redirection layer, and a first set of data storage devices. The read request has a correspo...