US 10,873,629 B2Granted

System and method of implementing an object storage infrastructure for cloud-based services

AssigneeEgnyte, Inc.

InventorsSachin Shetty, Krishna Sankar, Amrit Jassal, Kalpesh Patel, Shishir Sharma

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Abstract

A method for storing objects in an object storage system includes the steps of establishing a network connection with a client over an inter-network, receiving an upload request indicating an object to be uploaded by the client, selecting at least two storage nodes on which the object will be stored, receiving the object from the client via the network connection, and streaming the object to each of the selected storage nodes such that the object is stored on each of the selected storage nodes. The method can also include writing an object record associating the object and the selected storage nodes to a shard of an object database and generating a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID). The UUID indicates the shard and the object ID of the object record, such that the object record can be quickly retrieved. Object storage infrastructures are also disclosed.

Claims23

Dependent claims

In an object storage system, a method for storing digital objects of a client, said method comprising:

establishing a network connection with a client system over an inter-network;
receiving an upload request via said network connection, said upload request requesting that a digital object be uploaded from said client system;
selecting at least one storage node from a set of storage nodes, said digital object to be stored on said selected storage node;
receiving said digital object from said client system via said network connection;
determining whether said digital object was previously stored on said selected storage node;
and
preventing retention of multiple copies of said digital object on said selected storage node;
and wherein
said step of receiving said digital object includes storing said digital object on said selected storage node;
said step of determining whether said digital object was previously stored on said selected storage node includes analyzing said digital object as it is stored on said selected storage node;
and
said step of analyzing said digital object includes generating a hash value associated with said digital object and storing said hash value in an object record indicative of said digital object.

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An object storage system, comprising:

a set of storage nodes for storing digital objects associated with clients;
and
at least one client application server being operative to
establish a network connection with a client system over an inter-network,
receive an upload request via said network connection, said upload request requesting that a digital object be uploaded from said client system,
select at least one storage node from said set of storage nodes, said digital object to be stored on said selected storage node,
receive said digital object from said client system via said network connection,
determine whether said digital object was previously stored on said selected storage node,
prevent retention of multiple copies of said digital object on said selected storage node,
store said digital object on said selected storage node,
determine whether said digital object was previously stored on said selected storage node by analyzing said digital object as it is stored on said selected storage node,
generate a hash value associated with said digital object, and
store said hash value in an object record indicative of said digital object.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/956,596Filed 18 Apr 2018 · division
Priority: 12 Aug 2015
Published: US 2018/0241821 A123 Aug 2018
Granted: 22 Dec 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification25 codes

H04L 67/1097
In which an application is distributed across nodes in the network: for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for…
G06F 11/1402
Error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in operations: saving, restoring, recovering or retrying
G06F 11/142
At system level: reconfiguring to eliminate the error
G06F 11/1464
Management of the backup or restore process: for networked environments

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61/567737Parent of this division · filed 7 Dec 2011
Application14/824,931Parent of this division · filed 12 Aug 2015
US 2018/0241821 A1Pre-grant publication · published 23 Aug 2018
Application13/708,040Parent of this division
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US 2014/0149794 A1Published application
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