DETAILED ACTION
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Objections
Claim 4 is objected to because of the following informalities:
Claim 4, line 2: replace “trigging” with –triggering--.
Appropriate correction is required.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on October 21 & 30, 2024, February 27, March 13, April 28, May 14, June 3, June 20, August 8, August 21, September 4 and October 2, 2025 are in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the Examiner.
Double Patenting
The nonstatutory double patenting rejection is based on a judicially created doctrine grounded in public policy (a policy reflected in the statute) so as to prevent the unjustified or improper timewise extension of the “right to exclude” granted by a patent and to prevent possible harassment by multiple assignees. A nonstatutory double patenting rejection is appropriate where the conflicting claims are not identical, but at least one examined application claim is not patentably distinct from the reference claim(s) because the examined application claim is either anticipated by, or would have been obvious over, the reference claim(s). See, e.g., In re Berg, 140 F.3d 1428, 46 USPQ2d 1226 (Fed. Cir. 1998); In re Goodman, 11 F.3d 1046, 29 USPQ2d 2010 (Fed. Cir. 1993); In re Longi, 759 F.2d 887, 225 USPQ 645 (Fed. Cir. 1985); In re Van Ornum, 686 F.2d 937, 214 USPQ 761 (CCPA 1982); In re Vogel, 422 F.2d 438, 164 USPQ 619 (CCPA 1970); In re Thorington, 418 F.2d 528, 163 USPQ 644 (CCPA 1969).
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Claims 1, 8 and 15 are rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1, 2, 13, 15, 16, and 19 of U.S. Patent No. 11,789,660. Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because prior filed patent anticipates the current patent application.
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11,789,660
1. A method, comprising: tracking ownership information of objects stored within a distributed storage of a distributed storage architecture; routing a command to a first control plane controller paired with a first worker node of the distributed storage architecture based upon the ownership information indicating that an object target by the command is owned by the first worker node;
determining that ownership of the object changed from the first worker node to a second worker node of the distributed storage architecture; updating the ownership information to indicate that the second worker node is a current owner of the object to create updated ownership information; and rerouting commands, targeting the object, from being transmitted to the first control plane controller to being transmitted to a second control plane controller paired with the second worker node based upon the updated ownership information.
1. A system, comprising: a distributed storage architecture including a plurality of worker nodes managing distributed storage comprised of storage devices hosted by the plurality of worker nodes, wherein data of a volume owned by a first worker node is distributed across the storage devices forming the distributed storage, wherein the distributed storage architecture generates volume ownership information to identify worker nodes as current owners of resources within the distributed storage; a container orchestration platform hosting applications running through containers; a distributed control plane hosted within the container orchestration platform, wherein the distributed control plane comprises a plurality of pods hosting control plane controllers paired with the worker nodes, wherein the distributed control plane is configured to: receive a command originating from an application running as a container within the container orchestration platform, wherein the command is formatted according to a first model supported by the container orchestration platform; evaluate the volume ownership information to determine that the first worker node is a current owner of a volume targeted by the command; in response to the first worker node being the current owner, route the command to a first control plane controller paired with the first worker node; and the first control plane controller configured to: translate the command from being formatted according to the first model into a reformatted command formatted according to a second model supported by the distributed storage architecture; and transmit the reformatted command to the first worker node for execution through the distributed storage architecture.
13. The system of claim 1, the distributed control plane is further configured to: implement load balancing for the distributed storage architecture, wherein the load balancing changes ownership of the volume from the first worker node to a second worker node; and update the volume ownership information to identify the second worker node as a new owner of the volume, wherein commands targeting the volume are routed to a second control plane controller paired with the second worker node.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-7, 9-14, and 16-20 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Venkatesan et al. teaches distributed storage data movement.
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/BRIAN R PEUGH/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2133