Patents by Inventor Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel
Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel 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).
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Publication number: 20230289069Abstract: One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for resynchronization. For example, a request may be received to create pseudo snapshots of a first consistency group, hosted by a first storage controller, and a second consistency group, hosted by a second storage controller, having a synchronous replication relationship with the first consistency group. Incoming client write requests are logged within an intercept tracking log at the first storage controller. After a first drain without hold of incoming write requests is performed, a first pseudo common snapshot of the second consistency group is created. After a second drain without hold of incoming write operations is performed, a second pseudo common snapshot of the first consistency group and the intercept tracking log is created. The pseudo snapshots and the intercept tracking log (e.g., indicating a delta between the pseudo snapshots) are used to resynchronize the first and second consistency groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Akhil Kaushik, Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel, Vrishali Dattatray Hajare, Andrew Eric Dunn, Rithin Kumar Shetty
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Patent number: 11567674Abstract: One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for resynchronization. For example, a request may be received to create pseudo snapshots of a first consistency group, hosted by a first storage controller, and a second consistency group, hosted by a second storage controller, having a synchronous replication relationship with the first consistency group. Incoming client write requests are logged within an intercept tracking log at the first storage controller. After a first drain without hold of incoming write requests is performed, a first pseudo common snapshot of the second consistency group is created. After a second drain without hold of incoming write operations is performed, a second pseudo common snapshot of the first consistency group and the intercept tracking log is created. The pseudo snapshots and the intercept tracking log (e.g., indicating a delta between the pseudo snapshots) are used to resynchronize the first and second consistency groups.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: NetApp, Inc.Inventors: Akhil Kaushik, Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel, Vrishali Dattatray Hajare, Andrew Eric Dunn, Rithin Kumar Shetty
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Patent number: 11256434Abstract: A new snapshot of a storage volume is created by suppressing write requests. Once pending write requests from the computing nodes are completed, storage nodes create a new snapshot for the storage volume by allocating a new segment to the new snapshot. Subsequent write requests to the storage volume are then performed on the segments allocated to the new snapshot. An orchestration layer implements a bundled application that is provisioned with storage volumes and containers. A snapshot of the application may be created and used to rollback or clone the application. De-duplication may be performed by creating a signature map and identifying duplicated blocks. Blocks of segments containing duplicated blocks are copied to pool segments and metadata of those segments of the same logical storage unit may be consolidated to pool metadata segments. The identification of duplicate blocks may be performed in a cloud computing platform.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: ROBIN SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Jagadish Kumar Mukku, Dhanashankar Venkatesan, Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel, Kallur Vasudeva Rao Narasimha Subban
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Patent number: 11249851Abstract: A new snapshot of a storage volume is created by instructing computing nodes to suppress write requests. Storage nodes create a new snapshot for the storage volume by allocating a new segment to the new snapshot and finalizes and performs garbage collection with respect to segments allocated to the previous snapshot. Subsequent write requests to the storage volume are then performed on the segments allocated to the new snapshot. A segment maps segments to a particular snapshot and metadata stored in the segment indicates storage volume addresses of data written to the segment. The snapshots may be represented by a storage manager in a hierarchy that identifies an ordering of snapshots and branches to clone snapshots. A non-snapshot volume may be converted to a snapshot volume at any point after creation.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: ROBIN SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Dhanashankar Venkatesan, Jagadish Kumar Mukku, Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel
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Publication number: 20220027065Abstract: One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for resynchronization. For example, a request may be received to create pseudo snapshots of a first consistency group, hosted by a first storage controller, and a second consistency group, hosted by a second storage controller, having a synchronous replication relationship with the first consistency group. Incoming client write requests are logged within an intercept tracking log at the first storage controller. After a first drain without hold of incoming write requests is performed, a first pseudo common snapshot of the second consistency group is created. After a second drain without hold of incoming write operations is performed, a second pseudo common snapshot of the first consistency group and the intercept tracking log is created. The pseudo snapshots and the intercept tracking log (e.g., indicating a delta between the pseudo snapshots) are used to resynchronize the first and second consistency groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Akhil Kaushik, Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel, Vrishali Dattatray Hajare, Andrew Eric Dunn, Rithin Kumar Shetty
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Patent number: 11144211Abstract: One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for resynchronization. For example, a request may be received to create pseudo snapshots of a first consistency group, hosted by a first storage controller, and a second consistency group, hosted by a second storage controller, having a synchronous replication relationship with the first consistency group. Incoming client write requests are logged within an intercept tracking log at the first storage controller. After a first drain without hold of incoming write requests is performed, a first pseudo common snapshot of the second consistency group is created. After a second drain without hold of incoming write operations is performed, a second pseudo common snapshot of the first consistency group and the intercept tracking log is created. The pseudo snapshots and the intercept tracking log (e.g., indicating a delta between the pseudo snapshots) are used to resynchronize the first and second consistency groups.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: NetApp Inc.Inventors: Akhil Kaushik, Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel, Vrishali Dattatray Hajare, Andrew Eric Dunn, Rithin Kumar Shetty
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Patent number: 11086725Abstract: A new snapshot of a storage volume is created by instructing computing nodes to suppress write requests. An orchestration layer implements a multi-role application that is provisioned with virtualized storage and computation resources. A snapshot of the application may be created and used to rollback or clone the application. Clones snapshots of storage volumes may be gradually populated with data from prior snapshots to reduce loading on a primary snapshot. A multi-role application may be orchestrated using multiple orchestration approaches and objects of the multi-role application may be discovered and added to an application definition. The application definition may be used to create snapshots of the application and the snapshot may be used to rollback, clone, backup, or migrate the application.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Robin Systems, Inc.Inventors: Ravi Kumar Alluboyina, Tushar Doshi, Partha Sarathi Seetala, Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel, Jagadish Kumar Mukku
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Publication number: 20210191823Abstract: One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for snapshot creation. For example, a request may be received to create a snapshot of a first storage object, hosted by a first storage controller, having a synchronous replication relationship with a second storage object hosted by a second storage controller. A coordinator workflow is initialized to issue a drain and hold request to a splitter. Responsive to an indication that the splitter has stopped processing and started queuing incoming write operations and has drained current write operations based upon the drain and hold request, snapshot creation requests are sent to the first storage controller and the second storage controller. Responsive to the first storage controller creating a first snapshot of the first storage object and the second storage controller creating a second snapshot of the second storage object, the splitter may be resumed to process write operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2021Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Vrishali Dattatray Hajare, Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel, Ching-Yuk Paul Ngan, Rithin Kumar Shetty
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Patent number: 11023328Abstract: A new snapshot of a storage volume is created by suppressing write requests. Once pending write requests from the computing nodes are completed, storage nodes create a new snapshot for the storage volume by allocating a new segment to the new snapshot. Data is written in segments and Metadata is stored in the segments indicating LBAs of data stored therein and offsets within the segments at which data for LBAs are stored. For write requests, index entries are stored in an index buffer for a segment and written to the segment when the buffer is full. A redo entry is created in a redo buffer for multiple storage volumes and slices for each write request. Write requests are acknowledged when the redo buffer is written to redo segments on a storage device. On restart, index buffers are reconstructed from the redo segments if needed.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: ROBIN SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Dhanashankar Venkatesan, Jagadish Kumar Mukku, Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel
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Patent number: 10976938Abstract: A new snapshot of a storage volume is created by suppressing write requests. Once pending write requests from the computing nodes are completed, storage nodes create a new snapshot for the storage volume by allocating a new segment to the new snapshot. Subsequent write requests to the storage volume are then performed on the segments allocated to the new snapshot. A block map records segments where current data for an LBA of a slice of a storage volume is stored. Block maps may be written to a storage device in order to free memory. Block maps may be read back into memory when needed. Writing and reading of block maps may be performed upon fragments of block maps. On restarting of the storage node, block maps may be restored from block maps stored in the storage device.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: ROBIN SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Jagadish Kumar Mukku, Dhanashankar Venkatesan, Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel
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Patent number: 10949309Abstract: One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for snapshot creation. For example, a request may be received to create a snapshot of a first storage object, hosted by a first storage controller, having a synchronous replication relationship with a second storage object hosted by a second storage controller. A coordinator workflow is initialized to issue a drain and hold request to a splitter. Responsive to an indication that the splitter has stopped processing and started queuing incoming write operations and has drained current write operations based upon the drain and hold request, snapshot creation requests are sent to the first storage controller and the second storage controller. Responsive to the first storage controller creating a first snapshot of the first storage object and the second storage controller creating a second snapshot of the second storage object, the splitter may be resumed to process write operations.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: NetApp Inc.Inventors: Vrishali Dattatray Hajare, Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel, Ching-Yuk Paul Ngan, Rithin Kumar Shetty
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Publication number: 20210073079Abstract: A new snapshot of a storage volume is created by instructing computing nodes to suppress write requests. Storage nodes create a new snapshot for the storage volume by allocating a new segment to the new snapshot and finalizes and performs garbage collection with respect to segments allocated to the previous snapshot. Subsequent write requests to the storage volume are then performed on the segments allocated to the new snapshot. A segment maps segments to a particular snapshot and metadata stored in the segment indicates storage volume addresses of data written to the segment. The snapshots may be represented by a storage manager in a hierarchy that identifies an ordering of snapshots and branches to clone snapshots. A non-snapshot volume may be converted to a snapshot volume at any point after creation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2019Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventors: Dhanashankar Venkatesan, Jagadish Kumar Mukku, Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel
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Patent number: 10877684Abstract: A distributed storage system stores a storage volume as segments that are allocated as needed and assigned VSIDs according to a monotonically increasing counter. The storage volume may be provisioned by an orchestration layer that manages the storage volumes as well as containers executing executable components of the storage volume. The storage volume may be replicated, such as by replicating slices of the storage volume. A primary copy of the slice may be moved from one node to another within the distributed storage system by designating it as a replica, creating a new replica at the new location which is then brought current. The new replica is then designated as the primary replica and the former primary replica may be deleted. A non-replicated storage volume may be converted to a replicated storage volume and vice versa.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: ROBIN SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel, Dhanashankar Venkatesan, Jagadish Kumar Mukku
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Publication number: 20200363957Abstract: A distributed storage system stores a storage volume as segments that are allocated as needed and assigned VSIDs according to a monotonically increasing counter. The storage volume may be provisioned by an orchestration layer that manages the storage volumes as well as containers executing executable components of the storage volume. The storage volume may be replicated, such as by replicating slices of the storage volume. A primary copy of the slice may be moved from one node to another within the distributed storage system by designating it as a replica, creating a new replica at the new location which is then brought current. The new replica is then designated as the primary replica and the former primary replica may be deleted. A non-replicated storage volume may be converted to a replicated storage volume and vice versa.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2019Publication date: November 19, 2020Inventors: Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel, Dhanashankar Venkatesan, Jagadish Kumar Mukku
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Patent number: 10831387Abstract: A new snapshot of a storage volume is created by suppressing write requests. Once pending write requests from the computing nodes are completed, storage nodes create a new snapshot for the storage volume by allocating a new segment to the new snapshot. Subsequent write requests to the storage volume are then performed on the segments allocated to the new snapshot. An orchestration layer implements a bundled application that is provisioned with storage volumes and containers. A snapshot of the application may be created and used to rollback or clone the application. The amount of processing cores, memory, and containers may be increased or decreased based on usage. Amount of storage allocated to a storage volume may be augmented by a snapshot reservation ratio. The snapshot reservation ratio is adjusted over time according to usage.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2019Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: ROBIN SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Dhanashankar Venkatesan, Manjunath Mageswaran, Jagadish Kumar Mukku, Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel
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Publication number: 20200348863Abstract: A new snapshot of a storage volume is created by suppressing write requests. Once pending write requests from the computing nodes are completed, storage nodes create a new snapshot for the storage volume by allocating a new segment to the new snapshot. Subsequent write requests to the storage volume are then performed on the segments allocated to the new snapshot. An orchestration layer implements a bundled application that is provisioned with storage volumes and containers. A snapshot of the application may be created and used to rollback or clone the application. The amount of processing cores, memory, and containers may be increased or decreased based on usage. Amount of storage allocated to a storage volume may be augmented by a snapshot reservation ratio. The snapshot reservation ratio is adjusted over time according to usage.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2019Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventors: Dhanashankar Venkatesan, Manjunath Mageswaran, Jagadish Kumar Mukku, Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel
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Publication number: 20200333970Abstract: A new snapshot of a storage volume is created by suppressing write requests. Once pending write requests from the computing nodes are completed, storage nodes create a new snapshot for the storage volume by allocating a new segment to the new snapshot. Subsequent write requests to the storage volume are then performed on the segments allocated to the new snapshot. An orchestration layer implements a bundled application that is provisioned with storage volumes and containers. A snapshot of the application may be created and used to rollback or clone the application. De-duplication may be performed by creating a signature map and identifying duplicated blocks. Blocks of segments containing duplicated blocks are copied to pool segments and metadata of those segments of the same logical storage unit may be consolidated to pool metadata segments. The identification of duplicate blocks may be performed in a cloud computing platform.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2019Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventors: Jagadish Kumar Mukku, Dhanashankar Venkatesan, Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel, Kallur Vasudeva Rao Narasimha Subban
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Publication number: 20200310915Abstract: A new snapshot of a storage volume is created by instructing computing nodes to suppress write requests. An orchestration layer implements a multi-role application that is provisioned with virtualized storage and computation resources. A snapshot of the application may be created and used to rollback or clone the application. Clones snapshots of storage volumes may be gradually populated with data from prior snapshots to reduce loading on a primary snapshot. A multi-role application may be orchestrated using multiple orchestration approaches and objects of the multi-role application may be discovered and added to an application definition. The application definition may be used to create snapshots of the application and the snapshot may be used to rollback, clone, backup, or migrate the application.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Ravi Kumar Alluboyina, Tushar Doshi, Partha Sarathi Seetala, Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel, Jagadish Kumar Mukku
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Publication number: 20200081633Abstract: One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for resynchronization. For example, a request may be received to create pseudo snapshots of a first consistency group, hosted by a first storage controller, and a second consistency group, hosted by a second storage controller, having a synchronous replication relationship with the first consistency group. Incoming client write requests are logged within an intercept tracking log at the first storage controller. After a first drain without hold of incoming write requests is performed, a first pseudo common snapshot of the second consistency group is created. After a second drain without hold of incoming write operations is performed, a second pseudo common snapshot of the first consistency group and the intercept tracking log is created. The pseudo snapshots and the intercept tracking log (e.g., indicating a delta between the pseudo snapshots) are used to resynchronize the first and second consistency groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Inventors: Akhil Kaushik, Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel, Vrishali Dattatray Hajare, Andrew Eric Dunn, Rithin Kumar Shetty
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Publication number: 20200034475Abstract: A distributed storage system stores a storage volume as segments that are allocated as needed and assigned VSIDs according to a monotonically increasing counter. The storage volume may be provisioned by an orchestration layer that manages the storage volumes as well as containers executing executable components of the storage volume. The storage volume may be replicated, such as by replicating slices of the storage volume. A primary copy of the slice may be moved from one node to another within the distributed storage system by designating it as a replica, creating a new replica at the new location which is then brought current. The new replica is then designated as the primary replica and the former primary replica may be deleted.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2018Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Dhanashankar Venkatesan, Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel, Jagadish Kumar Mukku