US 11,734,040 B2
Efficient metadata management
Karan Gupta, San Jose, CA (US); Pavan Kumar Konka, Milpitas, CA (US); Rishi Bhardwaj, San Jose, CA (US); Rohit Jain, Cupertino, CA (US); and Tabrez Parvez Memon, Campbell, CA (US)
Assigned to Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 9, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/93,462.
Application 17/093,462 is a continuation of application No. 15/965,656, filed on Apr. 27, 2018, granted, now 10,831,521, issued on Nov. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0055953 A1, Feb. 25, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 67/1097 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 9/45558 (2013.01) [G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which, when stored in memory and executed by a processor causes the processor to perform a set of acts comprising:
receiving a request to access data associated with a distributed metadata store;
processing the request to access data using the distributed metadata store, at least by:
determining an object identifier of a metadata storage container of a plurality of metadata storage containers using an identification of a data storage container having the requested data, wherein the plurality of metadata storage containers being located on respective computing nodes of a plurality of computing nodes; and
querying the distributed metadata store using the determined object identifier, wherein the distributed metadata store uses the determined object identifier to determine a location of metadata in the distributed metadata store and the metadata at the location is accessed to determine the location of the data.