Patents by Inventor Saeed A Behnam

Saeed A Behnam 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).

  • In-place garbage collection of a sharded, replicated distributed state machine based on supersedable operations
    Patent number: 11055184
    Abstract: A log unit provides a shared log for recording updates on data objects. Garbage collection is performed locally and in-place by the log unit. In a marking portion of the garbage collection process, the log unit identifies and marks log entries that record supersedable updates. In a deallocation portion of the process, the log unit deallocates at least portions of the marked log entries that contain supersedable updates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Wei, Maithem Munshed, Anny Martinez Manzanilla, Zeeshan Altaf Lokhandwala, Saeed A Behnam, Medhavi Dhawan, Dahlia Malkhi
  • In-place garbage collection of a sharded, replicated distributed state machine based on mergeable operations
    Patent number: 10877881
    Abstract: A log unit provides a shared log for recording updates on data objects. Garbage collection is performed locally and in-place by the log unit. In a marking portion of the garbage collection process, the log unit identifies and marks log entries that record mergeable updates. In a deallocation portion of the process, the log unit merges one or more mergeable log entries and deallocates at least portions of the merged log entries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Wei, Maithem Munshed, Anny Martinez Manzanilla, Zeeshan Altaf Lokhandwala, Saeed A Behnam, Medhavi Dhawan, Dahlia Malkhi
  • IN-PLACE GARBAGE COLLECTION OF A SHARDED, REPLICATED DISTRIBUTED STATE MACHINE BASED ON MERGEABLE OPERATIONS
    Publication number: 20200226060
    Abstract: A log unit provides a shared log for recording updates on data objects. Garbage collection is performed locally and in-place by the log unit. In a marking portion of the garbage collection process, the log unit identifies and marks log entries that record mergeable updates. In a deallocation portion of the process, the log unit merges one or more mergeable log entries and deallocates at least portions of the merged log entries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Wei, Maithem Munshed, Anny Martinez Manzanilla, Zeeshan Altaf Lokhandwala, Saeed A. Behnam, Medhavi Dhawan, Dahlia Malkhi
  • IN-PLACE GARBAGE COLLECTION OF A SHARDED, REPLICATED DISTRIBUTED STATE MACHINE BASED ON SUPERSEDABLE OPERATIONS
    Publication number: 20200201721
    Abstract: A log unit provides a shared log for recording updates on data objects. Garbage collection is performed locally and in-place by the log unit. In a marking portion of the garbage collection process, the log unit identifies and marks log entries that record supersedable updates. In a deallocation portion of the process, the log unit deallocates at least portions of the marked log entries that contain supersedable updates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Wei, Maithem Munshed, Anny Martinez Manzanilla, Zeeshan Altaf Lokhandwala, Saeed A Behnam, Medhavi Dhawan, Dahlia Malkhi