US Patent Issued to VMware on July 21 for "Efficient unmap handling using synchronized redundant components of data objects" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,963, issued on July 21, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Efficient unmap handling using synchronized redundant components of data objects" was invented by Wenguang Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Eric Knauft (San Francisco) and Sudheer Thokala (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Components of a distributed data object are synchronized using streamlined tracking metadata. A target component of the distributed data object is detected as it becomes available and stale. A source component that is up-to-date and that mirrors the address space of the detected target component is identified. A set of mapped address ra...