System of and method for transparent management of data objects in containers across distributed heterogenous resources

Patent · 21 September 2010

OSTI ID:1014649

Moore, Reagan W ^[1]; Rajasekar, Arcot ^[2]; Wan, Michael Y ^[1]

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1. San Diego, CA
2. Del Mar, CA

A system of and method for maintaining data objects in containers across a network of distributed heterogeneous resources in a manner which is transparent to a client. A client request pertaining to containers is resolved by querying meta data for the container, processing the request through one or more copies of the container maintained on the system, updating the meta data for the container to reflect any changes made to the container as a result processing the request, and, if a copy of the container has changed, changing the status of the copy to indicate dirty status or synchronizing the copy to one or more other copies that may be present on the system.

• Research Organization: General Atomics (San Diego, CA)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• Assignee: General Atomics (San Diego, CA)
• Patent Number(s): 7,801,850
• Application Number: U S Patent Application 11/751,554
• OSTI ID: 1014649
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English