US Patent Issued to Qumulo on May 5 for "Managing file system transaction dependencies" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,582, issued on May 5, was assigned to Qumulo Inc. (Seattle).

"Managing file system transaction dependencies" was invented by Thomas Gregory Rothschilds (Seattle), Graham Edwin Ellis (Seattle) and Aaron James Passey (San Rafael, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments manage file system transaction dependencies in distributed file systems. A transaction log containing log entries is obtained, where each log entry represents a transaction with file system operations, execution times, and associated inodes. Dependency graphs are constructed based on shared inode references between log entries. Each inode stores the last modified...