Patents by Inventor Deon Chris Nicholas

Deon Chris Nicholas has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Atomic update operations in a data storage system
    Patent number: 10346381
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for performing atomic update operations in a storage system (“the technology”). The technology can receive an update command to update a value associated with a key stored in the storage system as a function of an input value; store the input value in a log stored at the storage system but not updating the value stored in the storage system; and update the value associated with the key with the received input values value based on the a function to generate an updated value, the updating occurring asynchronously with respect to receiving the update command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Deon Chris Nicholas, Haobo Xu, Dhrubajyoti Borthakur
  • ATOMIC UPDATE OPERATIONS IN A DATA STORAGE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150134602
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for performing atomic update operations in a storage system (“the technology”). The technology can receive an update command to update a value associated with a key stored in the storage system as a function of an input value; store the input value in a log stored at the storage system but not updating the value stored in the storage system; and update the value associated with the key with the received input values value based on the a function to generate an updated value, the updating occurring asynchronously with respect to receiving the update command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Deon Chris Nicholas, Haobo Xu, Dhrubajyoti Borthakur