ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,548, issued on March 31, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Aggregating metrics in file systems using structured journals" was invented by Jeffrey Hughes (Seattle), Daniel Hefenbrock (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Triantaphyllos Rakitzis (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to managing file systems. Update information associated with a change of a metric associated with a target object may be provided. A journal that includes a base bin that includes base records that associate the metric with each object in the file system. Records that include the change of the metric associated with the ancesto...