ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,745, issued on March 3, was assigned to VAST DATA LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Splitting a node of a tree data structure" was invented by Avi Goren (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for splitting a node of a metadata tree, the method includes (i) splitting the node of the metadata tree based on a lock contention parameter that differs from a fullness of the node, to provide split nodes; and (ii) preventing a size based merge of the split nodes for a time period following a period of a defined duration that starts after the splitting."
The patent was filed on June 11, 2024, under Application No. 18/740,463.
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