Patents by Inventor Vijai Babu Madhavan

Vijai Babu Madhavan 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).

  • Distributed, unified file system operations
    Patent number: 9037618
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to receive a request to access a file from a client node at one of a plurality of lookup nodes, the lookup nodes storing portions of a distributed table having lookup information associated with the file. The distributed table, which may comprise a distributed hash table, includes replicated references to virtualized and non-virtualized file elements of varied granularity in a unified file system. Additional activity may comprise forwarding the request to another one of the lookup nodes until the lookup information is located, or chaining the request to one of the plurality of lookup nodes and implementing activity that has been requested. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Novell, Inc.
    Inventors: Haripriya Srinivasaraghavan, Vijai Babu Madhavan
  • DISTRIBUTED, UNIFIED FILE SYSTEM OPERATIONS
    Publication number: 20120254140
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to receive a request to access a file from a client node at one of a plurality of lookup nodes, the lookup nodes storing portions of a distributed table having lookup information associated with the file. The distributed table, which may comprise a distributed hash table, includes replicated references to virtualized and non-virtualized file elements of varied granularity in a unified file system. Additional activity may comprise forwarding the request to another one of the lookup nodes until the lookup information is located, or chaining the request to one of the plurality of lookup nodes and implementing activity that has been requested. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventors: Haripriya Srinivasaraghavan, Vijai Babu Madhavan