Transaction Log Backup (i.e, Audit File, Journal) Patents (Class 707/648)
  • Patent number: 11966297
    Abstract: System extracts backup metadata, comprising system committed change numbers, system change numbers, types, and database version identifiers, for backup copies. System generates data structure, comprising start system change numbers, based on minimums of system committed change numbers, end system change numbers, based on maximums of system change numbers, database version identifiers, and identifiers for archive log backup copies. System identifies dependent system change numbers, based on start system change number to end system change number for backup copy corresponding to database version identifier. System identifies, in data structure, backed-up system change numbers, based on start system change numbers to end system change numbers for archive log backup copies corresponding to database version identifier, which are included in dependent system change numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Navneet Upadhyay, Rejith Mohan M, Amith Ramachandran, Shelesh Chopra
  • Patent number: 11941027
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for providing a first instance of a database system within the cloud computing environment, determining that scale out of the database system is to be executed, and in response, providing a second instance of the database system within the cloud computing environment, the first instance and the second instance collectively defining a cluster, establish a remote direct memory access (RDMA) connection between the first instance and the second instance, copying data stored within the first instance to a data store of the second instance over the RDMA connection, and configuring the first instance to replicate a first transaction log to the second instance over the RDMA connection, and receiving, by each of the first instance and the second instance, requests from one or more client devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: De-Li Xu, Zhi-peng Dong
  • Patent number: 11934424
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for avoiding target database constraint violations in a database replication system. The database replication system includes a source database and a target database, wherein target database transactions automatically abort due to constraint violations. Each database has one or more tables and at least one of the target database tables has one or more constraints. The database replication system replicates source database transactions. For each target database transaction corresponding to a replicated source database transaction, changes made at the source database are replicated to the target database. When it is detected that a replicated change causes a constraint violation as a result of one or more of the target database tables having one or more constraints, the applying of the database change to the target database of the database change is deferred and the database change is posted to an electronic list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GRAVIC, INC.
    Inventors: Paul J. Holenstein, John R. Hoffmann, Bruce D. Holenstein, Wilbur H. Highleyman
  • Patent number: 11921589
    Abstract: Any point in time backups for distributed consistency is disclosed. IOs from a consistency group are received by multiple aggregators and stored in corresponding journals. In response to a bookmark, the multiple journals are synthesized to create a do stream or to add the multiple journals to the do stream. A full synchronization operation can be performed simultaneously with replication operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Jehuda Shemer, Valerie Lotosh, Saar Cohen, Erez Sharvit
  • Patent number: 11899725
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for more efficiently updating a data directory, which maps data objects stored by a data storage service, such as maintained by on premise computing resources of a client of the data storage service. In one example, event data corresponding to operations performed on a plurality of data objects stored in a data storage partition of a data storage service may be obtained. A set of data objects relevant to a directory maintained locally by a client device may be determined. The event data may be filtered, such as by removing entries of the plurality of entries not corresponding to the set of data objects. The filtered event data may then be stored or pushed to a client device, to cause the directory to be updated, without requiring a full examination of the data storage partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Daniel Kropelin, John M Jamail
  • Patent number: 11893257
    Abstract: A system may include a memory and a processor in communication with the memory configured to perform operations. The may operations include obtaining transaction logs in blocks from nodes of a data storage system. The operations may include, for each transaction log, splitting the transaction log into log entries, grouping log entries into groups associated with a same data source, and writing the log entries of the groups to empty blocks such that log entries from different groups do not share a same block. The operations may include identifying a same sequence of log entries from the written transaction logs and uploading first blocks of a first transaction log, including the same sequence of log entries, to an object-based storage without uploading second blocks of a second transaction log including the same sequence of log entries to the object-based storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peng Hui Jiang, FengLi Wang, Qi Feng Huo, Jun Su, Hong Qing Zhou, Yan Lin Ren, Li Zhang, Ling Ling Sh Hu
  • Patent number: 11836156
    Abstract: A system according to certain aspects improves the process of performing snapshot replication operations (e.g., maintaining a mirror copy of primary data at a secondary location by generating snapshots of the primary data). The system can collect and maintain cumulative block-level changes to the primary data after each sub-interval of a plurality of sub-intervals between the snapshots. When a snapshot is generated, any changes to the primary data not reflected in the cumulative block-level changes are identified based on the snapshot and transmitted to the secondary location along with the cumulative block-level changes. By the time the snapshot is generated, some or all of the changes to the primary data associated with the given snapshot have already been included in the cumulative block-level changes, thereby reducing the time and computing resources spent to identify and collect the changes for transmission to the secondary location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Commvault Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Amit Mitkar, Sanjay Kumar
  • Patent number: 11797236
    Abstract: One example method includes performing delta operations to protect data. During a delta operation, a primary bitmap and a secondary bitmap are processed using bit logic. The delta generated by the delta operation is transmitted to a receiver. The receiver enqueues the delta into a delta queue configured to allow the replica volume at the target site to be moved to any point in time represented by the deltas in the delta queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Jehuda Shemer, Ravi Vijayakumar Chitloor
  • Patent number: 11775678
    Abstract: Access to sensitive information in a database can be restricted to improve security and enable efficient auditing. A security engine receives a request from a requesting entity to access data in the database and determines that the requested data includes sensitive information. In response to the requesting entity being authorized to access the data, the security engine retrieves the requested data from the database and modifies the retrieved data by modifying metadata of the retrieved data to include a tag indicating that the retrieved data includes sensitive information. The security engine provides the modified data to the requesting entity and modifies a data access log to identify each attempted access to the modified data. When sensitive data is requested, an interface can include an obscuring element, requiring a user to manually select the element to view the data, enabling the logging of the explicit access request by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ZENPAYROLL, INC.
    Inventor: Karlotcha Hoa
  • Patent number: 11720429
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for optimizing logging of decision outcomes in distributed transaction protocols. An example method may comprise: executing, by a processing device, a transaction manager to coordinate a distributed transaction for a plurality of participants; transmitting, by the processing device via the transaction manager, prepare messages to the plurality of participants; serializing a transaction log record of the distributed transaction in parallel with the transmitting of the prepare messages; speculatively writing the serialized transaction log record in persistent memory while the transaction manager performs the serializing of the transaction log record; and updating a speculative indicator associated with the distributed transaction to indicate validity of the transaction log record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan Halliday
  • Patent number: 11709773
    Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium storing an information processing program for causing a computer to execute a process including: specifying an amount of first areas subjected to data update among a plurality of first areas that are contained in a cache storage area and allowed to be synchronized individually from each other with a nonvolatile storage area; and determining whether to individually synchronize the first areas subjected to the data update among the plurality of first areas with the nonvolatile storage area or collectively synchronize a second area that is formed by the plurality of first areas and allowed to be collectively synchronized with the nonvolatile storage area, with the nonvolatile storage area, based on the specified amount, a first processing time taken for synchronization between the first areas and the nonvolatile storage area, and a second processing time taken for synchronization between the second area and the nonvolatile storage area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Satoshi Iwata
  • Patent number: 11704335
    Abstract: A computer implemented method comprises receiving at least one log record. A type of operation performed in a source database system may be determined based on the log record. Based on the type of operation, an update strategy may be selected from a set of pre-defined update strategies, wherein the update strategy specifies a sequence of replication operations to be performed in order to apply changes described in the at least one log record to a target database system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Felix Beier, Dennis Butterstein, Sabine Perathoner-Tschaffler, Einar Lueck
  • Patent number: 11700113
    Abstract: This application discloses an audit result data storage method and device, an audit result data query method and device, an audit item storage method and device, an electronic device and a medium. The method includes obtaining a first hash value of audit result data of a first user; signing the first hash value according to a private key of the first user to obtain first signature data; and transmitting the first signature data to an audit result data storage subsystem, the audit result data storage subsystem being configured to store data in the form of a blockchain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Dongyan Wang, Maocai Li, Bo Li, Haitao Tu
  • Patent number: 11687560
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and/or systems are provided that perform the following operations: in a data replication environment, analyzing a database workload to generate a knowledge base of information related to compression; dividing a transfer data stream into different segments based, at least in part, on the knowledge base; obtaining candidate compression types for the transfer data stream based, at least in part, on the knowledge base; assigning respective compression types of the candidate compression types to the different segments; generating compressed segments based, at least in part, on the respective compression types assigned to the different segments; and providing the compressed segments to a replication target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peng Hui Jiang, Xiao Yi Tian, Di Li Hu, XiangXing Shi, Xian Wei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11671465
    Abstract: One example method includes intercepting an IO that is directed to a volume, writing the IO to a grid-CG that is one of a plurality of grid-CGs that collectively form a distributed CG, adding the IO to a stream journal associated with the grid-CG, receiving a bookmark request, in response to the bookmark request, inserting a bookmark in the stream journal, incrementing a splitter counter and broadcasting a splitter counter value to the grid-CGs in the distributed CG, and inserting the bookmark in respective stream journals of the grid-CGs in the distributed CG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Erez Sharvit, Jehuda Shemer, Valerie Lotosh, Saar Cohen
  • Patent number: 11669518
    Abstract: A method and system of processing database transactions in a distributed online transaction processing (OLTP) database is provided. Overhead and network bandwidth associated with a global transaction manager are reduced and scalability improved by determining whether incoming statements are single-shard or multi-shard. For single-shard statements, a local transaction identifier (TXID) stored and associated with a data record reference by the statement is retrieved. The retrieved TXID is compared against a copy of a list of prepared transactions that are pending in a respective data node. If the TXID is in the copy of the prepared list, the statement is caused to await until the previous transaction has been committed or aborted. The visibility of a change committed by the previous is then determined, and the statement is processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuk Kuen Chan, Ronen Grosman, Seyyed Mohammad Hadi Sajjadpour, Hoi leng Lao, Wen Hao Zhang, Chung Yin Alan Wong
  • Patent number: 11652716
    Abstract: A data collection device can determine that a connection is unavailable between the data collection device and a data processing platform. The data collection device can obtain, after the connection is unavailable, a plurality of readings. The data collection device can determine, based on determining that the connection is unavailable, to discard one or more readings from the plurality of readings to form a set of readings. The data collection device can store, based on determining that the connection is unavailable, the set of readings without storing the one or more readings. The data collection device can determine, after storing the set of readings, that the connection is available. The data collection device can transmit, based on determining that the connection is available, the set of readings to the data processing platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Wei Li
  • Patent number: 11645262
    Abstract: The subject technology executes a change on an existing micro-partition of a table of a database, the executing of the change comprising generating a new micro-partition that embodies the change. The subject technology receives a request for a delta for the table between a first timestamp and a second timestamp. The subject technology queries at least one change tracking column to determine the delta between the first timestamp and the second timestamp, the delta including information indicating at least one database operation that was performed to at least one row of a set of rows of the table, without including information as to intermediate changes made to at least one row of the set of rows of the table between the first timestamp and the second timestamp, that facilitates a reduction in storage of historical versions of the set of rows of the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Istvan Cseri, Torsten Grabs, Benoit Dageville
  • Patent number: 11593309
    Abstract: Embodiments include a method for fault tolerance in the delivery of event information within a file system cluster. One or more processors to determine event information associated with file system activity performed by a node of the cluster. The one or more processors add the event information to an event log buffer in memory. The one or more processors receive a first log sequence number (LSN) associated with flushing of recovery information from a recovery log buffer. The one or more processors determine the event information in the event log buffer having a log sequence number less than or equal to the first log sequence number, and determining the event information includes log sequence numbers less than or equal to the first log sequence number, the one or more processors flush the corresponding event information from the event log buffer to disk storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John T. Olson, Deepavali M. Bhagwat, Frank Schmuck, Shekhar Amlekar, Luis Teran, Jacob Morris Tick, April Brown
  • Patent number: 11588755
    Abstract: Information describing changes to a collection of items maintained by a database may be stored in a log file. The information in the log file may be converted into a stream of records describing the changes. The records may be directed to a computing node selected for performing a trigger function in response to the change, based on applying a hash function to a portion of the record, identifying a hash space associated with a value output by the hash function, and mapping from the hash space to the selected computing node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Parikshit Shivajirao Pol, Subramanian Sankara Subramanian, Rajaprabhu Thiruchi Loganathan, Rama Krishna Sandeep Pokkunuri, Gopinath Duddi, Akshat Vig, Safeer Mohiuddin, Sudarshan Narasimhan
  • Patent number: 11573862
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing application aware backups and/or generating other application aware secondary copies of virtual machines are described. For example, the systems and methods described herein may access a virtual machine, automatically discover various databases and/or applications (e.g., SQL, Exchange, Sharepoint, Oracle, and so on) running on the virtual machine, and perform data storage operations that generate a backup, or other secondary copy, of the virtual machine, as well as backups, or other secondary copies, of each of the discovered applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Commvault Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Sudha Krishnan Iyer, Rahul S. Pawar
  • Patent number: 11567837
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments disclose techniques for journaling data received in a cloud-based distributed computing environment (CBDCE). Multiple services simultaneously execute on the CBDCE compute nodes, with each service comprising multiple service instances that simultaneously execute on multiple, distinct compute nodes of the CBDCE. The CBDCE includes a distributed database that enables coordination between the service instances of services that execute in the CBDCE; this distributed database also includes multiple distributed database instances that simultaneously executing on multiple different CBDCE compute nodes. During operation, a service instance executing on one of these compute nodes receives a client request. The service instance submits this client request to a distributed database instance and, in parallel, also submits the client request and its associated user data to a distributed journaling service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Panzura, LLC
    Inventors: Jian Xing, Qian Zhang, Pu Paul Zhang
  • Patent number: 11561947
    Abstract: Tracking changes to a document by defining a document record having a unique document record and comprising an index and a file name of the document, and defining a backup record for the document in a series of backups, which includes a timestamp for each backup, and a bitmask for the document. The bitmask has a single bit position for each document in the container which is set to a first binary value to indicate that the corresponding document is unchanged and a second binary value to indicate whether the document is changed or deleted. A primary query is received and resolved for the document by analyzing the document record to find the file name. A secondary query using the document record ID is resolved to find all tracked versions of the document, and the results are returned to the user in the form of a version history list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Mark Malamut, Adam Brenner, Arun Murti
  • Patent number: 11531604
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, computer systems, and the like are disclosed that provide for scalable deduplication in an efficient and effective manner. For example, such methods, computer program products, and computer systems can include determining whether a source data store and a replicated data store are unsynchronized and, in response to a determination that the source data store and the replicated data store are unsynchronized, performing a resynchronization operation. The source data stored in the source data store is replicated to replicated data in the replicated data store. The resynchronization operation resynchronizes the source data and the replicated data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Veritas Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Rushikesh Patil, Sunil Hasbe
  • Patent number: 11500740
    Abstract: Providing continuous data protection includes maintaining a database having substantially all data modifications made to a primary volume over a recovery interval. The database is maintained in conjunction with a copying operation where the data of the primary volume are mirrored to a remote volume to permit recovery of mirrored data in the event of loss of primary volume data. The contents of the remote volume generally lag behind the contents of the primary volume by substantially the recovery interval. Providing continuous data protection also includes providing data roll-back to a precise point in time within the recovery interval by applying, to the contents of the remote volume, all data modifications in the database that occurred between the latest data modification to the remote volume and the precise point in time within the recovery interval. A time stamp mechanism of sufficient precision and granularity may be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventor: Douglas E. LeCrone
  • Patent number: 11500873
    Abstract: Methods and systems for searching directory access groups are disclosed. A set of groups associated with a logon user is determined. The set of groups is partitioned into one or more disjoint subsets, wherein each of the disjoint subsets is represented by a data representation including a root node and one or more intermediate nodes. For each of the disjoint subsets, the disjoint subset is path compressed to flatten a structure of the data representation representing the disjoint subset. The data representation is cached to a database cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Frank Huang, Cherami Liu, Aaron Ren Wang, Hanson Wang
  • Patent number: 11500753
    Abstract: A storage device is disclosed. A first storage media may store data. The first storage media may be of a first storage type, and may be organized into at least two blocks. A second storage media may also store data. The second storage media may be of a second storage type different from the first type, and may also be organized into at least two blocks. A controller may manage reading data from and writing data to the first storage media and the second storage media. Metadata storage may store device-based log data for errors in the storage device. The drive-based log data for errors may include a unified log data for the first storage media and the second storage media. An identification circuit may identify a suspect block in the at least two blocks in the first storage media and the second storage media, responsive to the unified log data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Inventors: Nima Elyasi, Changho Choi
  • Patent number: 11496552
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for intent tracking asynchronous operations. An example method can include receiving, at a content management system (CMS), a first request to perform an operation on a content item stored at the CMS; adding the request to perform the operation to a queue of operations to be processed by the CMS; and prior to completing the operation: receiving, from a client device associated with a user account registered at the CMS, a second request to access the content item; in response to the second request, determining a predicted state of the content item, the predicted state of the content item reflecting a result of performing the operation on the content item; and providing, to the client device, a response including the predicted state of the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Vrushali Kulkarni, Braden Walker, David Wetterau, David Aeschlimann, Luan Dos Santos
  • Patent number: 11442958
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing data protection operations including replication operations. A replication operation may automatically learn and predict when a replication system will need to switch modes, such as to a protective mode or to a fast-forward mode. The replication operation ensures that the data is replicated in a manner that optimizes the ability to retain data needed to perform point in time recovery operations while prioritizing the replication operation of new data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Amihai Savir, Assaf Natanzon
  • Patent number: 11429675
    Abstract: Described herein are embodiments of a database system for performing multi-document transactions. The database system comprises a database comprising a plurality of data storage nodes. The database system receives transactions that access at least two documents stored in the database. The database system generates a transaction identifier associated with the transaction and associates operations in the transaction with the transaction identifier. The database system performs at least part of the transaction on the database and determines whether an error occurred in performing in performing the transaction. When the database system determines that an error occurred in performing the transaction, the database system reverses any performed operations of the transaction. When no error occurs in performing the transaction, the database system outputs a confirmation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: MongoDB, Inc.
    Inventors: Eliot Horowitz, Andrew Michalski Schwerin
  • Patent number: 11416349
    Abstract: Recovery of a database system by taking the database system offline is initiated. Thereafter, recovery operations specified by a redo log of the database system are replayed. A cleanup log is generated that identifies cleanup operations occurring during the replay of the recovery operations for garbage collection. Concurrent with the startup of the database, garbage collection of the cleanup operations as specified in the database savepoint is initiated. In addition, concurrent with the replay of the recovery operations, garbage collection of the cleanup operations specified by the cleanup log is initiated. The database system is later brought online after all of the recovery operations are replayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Thorsten Glebe, Werner Thesing, Christoph Roterring
  • Patent number: 11416453
    Abstract: Facilitating checkpoint locks for distributed systems is provided herein. A system can comprise a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can comprise generating an ordered data structure that comprises respective identifications of a group of nodes granted a shared lock for a data file. The group of nodes can comprise a node having a respective identification of the respective identifications. The operations also can comprise, based on a determination that a checkpoint function associated with the shared lock has completed at a node of the group of nodes, removing the respective identification of the node from the ordered data structure. In an example, the shared lock can be a checkpoint application program interface. In another example, the group of nodes can be nodes arranged in a distributed computing hierarchy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventor: Ronald Steinke
  • Patent number: 11409993
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-readable storage medium for performing a cognitive information processing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Cognitive Scale, Inc.
    Inventors: Joydeep Ghosh, Jessica Henderson, Matthew Sanchez
  • Patent number: 11372886
    Abstract: Techniques for dynamically detecting objects that are out of sync in an active mirrored environment are provided. A request is received at a local node of an active mirroring environment from a system function to perform a change operation on an object. Upon determining that the object is OOS, it is determined whether the local node or a remote node of the active mirroring environment has the most recent changes for the object. In one embodiment, the determination includes analyzing corresponding time stamps of changes listed in a repository of changes for objects in the mirrored environment. Upon determining that a remote node has the most recent changes for the object, a blocking attribute is set and the requested operation on the object blocked. However, upon determining that the local node has the most recent changes for the object, a tracking attribute is set and the requested operation allowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert D. Driesch, Jr., Robert V. Downer, Mi Huynh, John D. Dietel
  • Patent number: 11328000
    Abstract: Example embodiments may flatten structured data (e.g., extensible markup language (XML)) to two tables, a lineage table and an attribute table. The lineage table describes hierarchical relationships in the structured data and values of respective elements. The attribute table contains a normalized list of attributes in the structured data. Together the lineage and attribute tables comprise data that could enable recreation of the structured data without any loss of data. In some examples, the tables may be compressed. The flattening of the structured data into two tables, and optional compression of the tables, provides for efficient access and querying of the data. Example embodiments may provide automated and/or processing of additional structured data, ongoing over time, even if the expected hierarchy of the data changes over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventor: Jeff Whybark
  • Patent number: 11308207
    Abstract: A cloud storage server accesses a plurality of server-stored files of a cloud storage account of a client device. The cloud storage server determines that one or more server-stored files from the plurality of server-stored files are affected by a malware activity. The cloud storage server generates a graphical user interface that includes a detection notification and a confirmation request, the detection notification indicating a detected presence of malware in the one or more server-stored files and metadata corresponding to the one or more server-stored files, the confirmation request indicating a request for the client device to confirm the detected presence of malware in the one or more server-stored files. A confirmation response is received from the client device. The confirmation response identifies at least one of the one or more server-stored files and confirming the presence of malware activity in the identified server-stored files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Filip Chelarescu, Benjamin N. Truelove, Meir E. Abergel, Parthipan Thayanithy
  • Patent number: 11281386
    Abstract: A storage system comprises a disk array enclosure comprising an enclosure controller, a cache comprising a metadata journal, a plurality of data storage devices and a plurality of metadata storage devices. The enclosure controller is configured to write a stripe metadata page to the metadata storage devices that corresponds to a stripe of data stored on the data storage devices and to determine that the write of the stripe metadata page failed for a first metadata storage device. The enclosure controller is configured to add an entry to the metadata journal based on the determination that the write failed. The entry comprises an indication of the first metadata storage device and the stripe of data. The enclosure controller is configured to set an indication in a data structure associated with the disk array enclosure that the stripe metadata page has not been written to the first metadata storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Boris Glimcher, Amitai Alkalay
  • Patent number: 11258725
    Abstract: Information describing changes to a collection of items maintained by a database may be stored in a log file. The information in the log file may be converted into a stream of records describing the changes. The records may be directed to a computing node selected for performing a trigger function in response to the change, based on applying a hash function to a portion of the record, identifying a hash space associated with a value output by the hash function, and mapping from the hash space to the selected computing node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Parikshit Shivajirao Pol, Subramanian Sankara Subramanian, Rajaprabhu Thiruchi Loganathan, Rama Krishna Sandeep Pokkunuri, Gopinath Duddi, Akshat Vig, Safeer Mohiuddin, Sudarshan Narasimhan
  • Patent number: 11238064
    Abstract: A system according to certain aspects improves the process of performing snapshot replication operations (e.g., maintaining a mirror copy of primary data at a secondary location by generating snapshots of the primary data). The system can collect and maintain cumulative block-level changes to the primary data after each sub-interval of a plurality of sub-intervals between the snapshots. When a snapshot is generated, any changes to the primary data not reflected in the cumulative block-level changes are identified based on the snapshot and transmitted to the secondary location along with the cumulative block-level changes. By the time the snapshot is generated, some or all of the changes to the primary data associated with the given snapshot have already been included in the cumulative block-level changes, thereby reducing the time and computing resources spent to identify and collect the changes for transmission to the secondary location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: COMMVAULT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Amit Mitkar, Sanjay Kumar
  • Patent number: 11210281
    Abstract: Disclosed is a computer program stored in a computer-readable storage medium including encoded commands according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure. When the computer program is executed by one or more processors, the computer program allows the one or more processors to perform a method for managing undo information in a database management system (DBMS). The method may include: forming undo information corresponding to an update request by a first transaction in response to the update request by the first transaction in the database management system (DBMS); determining an undo memory chunk to be allocated to the undo information from an undo memory pool on a memory, the undo memory chunk having a variable size; and maintaining the undo information on a space of the memory by using the determined undo memory chunk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: TmaxData Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minho Lee, Hakyong Lee, Chanho Hwang, Sang Young Park, Tai Kyoung Kim, Jeongho Na
  • Patent number: 11210272
    Abstract: An example distributed database includes a first instance and a second instance. The first instance is configured to: responsive to performing, within a scope of a database update transaction, a first database update operation, invalidate a cache entry residing in the first database cache maintained by the first instance, wherein the first database update operation is reflected by a transaction log maintained by the first instance; perform, within the scope of the database update transaction, a second database update operation to insert an identifier of the cache entry into a predetermined table of the distributed database, wherein the second database update operation is reflected by the transaction log; and responsive to committing the database update transaction, transmit the transaction log to the second instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Electronic Arts Inc.
    Inventors: Xinfeng Zhang, Mengxin Ye, Zhifeng Chen, Xiaokai Wu
  • Patent number: 11188560
    Abstract: A latest status record of an object in a local storage node is obtained as a local status record of the object. The status record includes a name of an operation changing the object, a timestamp of the operation changing the object, a first status flag, and a second status flag. The first status flag indicates whether a synchronization of the object from current object storage node to another object storage node is executed. The second status flag indicates whether a synchronization of the object from another object storage node to the current object storage node is executed. The latest status record of the object is obtained of the object in from a remote object storage node as a remote status record of the object. A synchronization of the object is executed based on the local status record and the remote status record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hai Ji, Yuan Yuan Li, Xiaoyang Yang, Chun Guang Zeng
  • Patent number: 11188347
    Abstract: A driver loading method and a server, where when receiving a service request, the server determines a first global index and a first global virtual function (VF) identifier corresponding to a first function description of a designated function included in the service request, determines a virtual machine (VM) corresponding to the service request, associates the first global VF identifier with the VM, allocates a first local index on the VM to the designated function, creates a correspondence between the first local index and the first function description, and sends the correspondence to the VM. The VM loads, according to the correspondence, a driver of the designated function for a first VF corresponding to the first global VF identifier. According to the foregoing method, different drivers can be loaded for VFs that have different functions and that are virtualized by a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongtian Yang, Xinyu Hu, Yuming Xie, Yuping Zhao
  • Patent number: 11163799
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for use in a storage system including a source system that is coupled to a target system, the method comprising: detecting a rollback event that is associated with a source volume Vs; and performing a rollback of the source volume Vs in response to the rollback event, wherein performing the rollback of the source volume Vs includes: identifying a target snapset Sr to be rolled back to, the target snapset Sr having a creation time Tr; identifying a snapset recovery pair including a source snapset Sk and a target snapset Sk?, the source snapset having a creation time Ts, and the target snapset having a creation time Tt, such that Tr?Ts?Tt; assigning the source volume Vs to the source snapset Sk; and update the source volume Vs based on a difference between the target snapset Sr and the target snapset Sk?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Xiangping Chen, Svetlana Kronrod
  • Patent number: 11151111
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of relocating data in a distributed database comprises: creating, by one or more processors, a second table in the distributed database, the second table including all columns from a first table; copying, by the one or more processors, a first set of tuples from the first table to the second table; modifying, by the one or more processors, during the copying of the first set of tuples, data of the first table according to a modification; after the copying of the first set of tuples, modifying, by the one or more processors, data of the second table according to the modification; and switching, by the one or more processors, the second table for the first table in a catalog of the distributed database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Yang Sun, Cheng Zhu, Le Cai, Qingqing Zhou
  • Patent number: 11144406
    Abstract: A memory system includes a plurality of dies including a plurality of memory blocks, each die including a first region and a second region; and a controller which includes a memory storing plural pieces of check point information and a processor, wherein the processor includes: a check point manager suitable for performing a check pointing operation by programming identification information and check point information on the plurality of memory blocks, according to the size of the plural pieces of; and a recovery manager suitable for resuming an operation stopped due to a sudden power-off (SPO) by using last check point information and last identification information, which are programmed last in memory blocks in each of the dies when the SPO occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Eu-Joon Byun
  • Patent number: 11132463
    Abstract: Systems and methods may be provided for masking data on public networks. At a publishing node, the system may monitor data input fields in a webpage, and intercept and encode content, such as text, images, and video input at the data input fields, prior to the content being posted online on a public service provider's website. A policy may be defined to control which users are permitted access to a key to decode the encoded content. The policy may defer to a third party policy node in determining key access. An account for a controlling entity, such as a guardian or employer, may be configured to control the encoding status of posts made by another. The controlling entity may control who has key access to decode posts made by the other account. The guardian account may be configured to have preemptive rights over posting decisions made by the minor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: ESW Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Sprague, Michael Sprague
  • Patent number: 11132464
    Abstract: Systems and methods may be provided for masking data on public networks, such as social networking sites. At a publishing node, the system may monitor data input fields in a webpage, and intercept and encode content, such as text, images, and video input at the data input fields, prior to the content being posted online on a public service provider's website. A privacy agent may process input field content to try to detect encoding markers in the input field content, which define portions of the content that are to be encoded. A third party key server may be used to store decoding keys. A URI reference to the decoding key may be used to access the decoding key by a node attempting to view the decoded version of the input field content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: ESW Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Sprague, Michael Sprague
  • Patent number: 11134119
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for intent tracking asynchronous operations. An example method can include receiving, at a content management system (CMS), a first request to perform an operation on a content item stored at the CMS; adding the request to perform the operation to a queue of operations to be processed by the CMS; and prior to completing the operation: receiving, from a client device associated with a user account registered at the CMS, a second request to access the content item; in response to the second request, determining a predicted state of the content item, the predicted state of the content item reflecting a result of performing the operation on the content item; and providing, to the client device, a response including the predicted state of the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Vrushali Kulkarni, Braden Walker, David Wetterau, David Aeschlimann, Luan Dos Santos
  • Patent number: 11132262
    Abstract: An application may store data to a dataset comprising a plurality of volumes stored on a plurality of storage systems. The application may request a dataset image of the dataset, the dataset image comprising a volume image of each volume of the dataset. A dataset image manager operates with a plurality of volume image managers in parallel to produce the dataset image, each volume image manager executing on a storage system. The plurality of volume image managers respond by performing requested operations and sending responses to the dataset image manager in parallel. Each volume image manager on a storage system may manage and produce a volume image for each volume of the dataset stored to the storage system. If a volume image for any volume of the dataset fails, or a timeout period expires, a cleanup procedure is performed to delete any successful volume images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: NetApp Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Wu, Prathamesh Deshpande, Manan Patel