Patents by Inventor Wim Vander Schelden

Wim Vander Schelden 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).

  • Metadata compaction in a distributed storage system
    Patent number: 11232070
    Abstract: Systems and methods for metadata compaction in a distributed storage system with a file system interface are described. A file system interface and an object storage system interface use a metadata index for mapping object identifiers from the object storage system to location identifiers for the file system. When the metadata index includes a number of entries for continuous data blocks with overlapping intervals, a defragmentation operation may generate a defragmented entry for a defragmentation interval overlapping the overlapping data blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Koen Struyve, Thomas Demoor, Wim Vander Schelden
  • METADATA COMPACTION IN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20200401557
    Abstract: Systems and methods for metadata compaction in a distributed storage system with a file system interface are described. A file system interface and an object storage system interface use a metadata index for mapping object identifiers from the object storage system to location identifiers for the file system. When the metadata index includes a number of entries for continuous data blocks with overlapping intervals, a defragmentation operation may generate a defragmented entry for a defragmentation interval overlapping the overlapping data blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Koen Struyve, Thomas Demoor, Wim Vander Schelden