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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2023

Filed:

May. 29, 2020
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Enning Xiang, San Jose, CA (US);

Pascal Renauld, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Sandeep Rangaswamy, Mountain View, CA (US);

Xin Li, Fremont, CA (US);

Yiqi Xu, Redwood City, CA (US);

Venkata Ramanan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/27 (2019.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/27 (2019.01); G06F 11/1458 (2013.01); G06F 2201/80 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosure herein describes tracking changes to a stale component using a synchronization bitmap. A first component of a plurality of mirrored components of the distributed data object becomes available from an unavailable state, and a stale log sequence number (LSN) and a last committed LSN are identified. A synchronization bitmap of the first component associated with a range of LSNs (e.g., from the stale LSN to the last committed LSN) is created and configured to track changes to data blocks of the first component. A second component is identified based on the second component including a tracking bitmap associated with an LSN that matches the stale LSN of the first component. The first component is synchronized with data from the second component based on, wherein the synchronizing includes updating the synchronization bitmap to track changes made to data blocks of the first component.


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