US Patent Issued to Scale Computing on Feb. 10 for "Zero memory buffer copying in a reliable distributed computing system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,315, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Scale Computing Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Zero memory buffer copying in a reliable distributed computing system" was invented by Clint McVey (San Carlos, Calif.) and Scott Loughmiller (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reducing buffer space that is reserved when a VM attempts to write to disk. A shared memory maintains stored information available to all VM's, allowing translation between accessible to RSD's, independent of how that VM's storage is divided into VSD's. When a guest OS writes to a VSD, an "extent", designating a location in the shared memory and amount of data to be trans...