Patents by Inventor Rose F. Liu

Rose F. Liu 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).

  • Efficient and flexible organization and management of file metadata
    Patent number: 10776315
    Abstract: Storing data is disclosed, including: creating a clone of a snapshot comprising a first set of metadata associated with a source data, at least in part by generating for the clone a second set of metadata that includes an active index that is associated with the snapshot and is configured to store metadata associated with data values that are written to the clone; receiving a write operation to write a requested data value to the clone; and in response to the write operation, updating the active index based at least in part on the requested data value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Tintri by DDN, Inc.
    Inventors: Raj Ashok Sudarsanam, Pratap V. Singh, Edward K. Lee, Mark G. Gritter, Rose F. Liu
  • Fast container distribution with storage acceleration
    Patent number: 10430378
    Abstract: Storage system accelerated techniques to distribute and run containerized applications are disclosed. In various embodiments, an indication to run a container is received. A snapshot identifier comprising an image data associated with the container is used to create a clone based on a snapshot with which the snapshot identifier is associated. The clone is used to store data associated with at least a topmost layer of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Tintri by DDN, Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler Harter, Rose F. Liu, Brandon W. Salmon
  • EFFICIENT AND FLEXIBLE ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF FILE METADATA
    Publication number: 20170052851
    Abstract: Storing data is disclosed, including: creating a clone of a snapshot comprising a first set of metadata associated with a source data, at least in part by generating for the clone a second set of metadata that includes an active index that is associated with the snapshot and is configured to store metadata associated with data values that are written to the clone; receiving a write operation to write a requested data value to the clone; and in response to the write operation, updating the active index based at least in part on the requested data value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Raj Ashok Sudarsanam, Pratap V. Singh, Edward K. Lee, Mark G. Gritter, Rose F. Liu
  • Efficient and flexible organization and management of file metadata
    Patent number: 9529808
    Abstract: Storing data is disclosed, including: receiving a request to create a clone of a snapshot included in a first set of metadata associated with a source data; and generating a second set of metadata for the clone, wherein the second set of metadata associated with the clone includes, for at least some metadata values, a data associating with the second set of metadata one or more corresponding values in the first set of metadata associated with the source data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Tintri Inc.
    Inventors: Raj A. Sudarsanam, Pratap V. Singh, Edward K. Lee, Mark G. Gritter, Rose F. Liu