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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2019
Applicant:
Netapp Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
NetApp Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0643 (2013.01); G06F 3/0623 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/2308 (2019.01);
Abstract
A method, apparatus and product for accelerating concurrent access to a file in a memory-based file system. The method comprising receiving a request issued by a program, for accessing a file stored in a memory-based file system; and subject to the request being associated with data modification of data within the file, and subject to the modification not necessitating change in a structure of a data structure used for content lookup for the file, acquiring a lock to the file to the program, wherein the lock is acquired in a shared mode.