Vinodh Kumar Kamattathil Ravindran

Title: Vinodh Kumar Kamattathil Ravindran and Efficient Snapshot Management

Introduction

Vinodh Kumar Kamattathil Ravindran is an inventor based in Sunnyvale, California. His work includes a patented approach to managing snapshots and clones in distributed data storage systems.

Latest Patents

Ravindran is associated with 1 patent: “Distributed Data Store for Efficient Snapshot Management Using Collocated Metadata.” The invention describes a computer-implemented method, system, and program product for managing objects by coordinating snapshot and clone metadata. Instead of maintaining separate metadata sets, the approach intermingles entries for snapshots and clones in a shared set, giving the storage system a single place to find extent information when processing requests to create, read, update, or delete data.

The patent also describes support for variable-sized allocation units and tombstones, which use metadata to represent sparse data. In some embodiments, metadata and the data it references are stored on the same storage devices.

Career Highlights

Ravindran is associated with Oracle International Corporation. His patented work addresses storage-management efficiency by bringing snapshot and clone metadata together and supporting flexible data allocation.

Collaborations

His listed coworkers include Siddharth Choudhary and Dongqiao Ma.

Conclusion

Vinodh Kumar Kamattathil Ravindran’s patent presents a unified approach to snapshot and clone management, with features designed to help distributed storage systems locate and manage data efficiently.