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 .
DETAILED ACTION
Claims 1-20 are pending.
This action is in response to the application filed on June 26, 2025.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This U.S. Patent Application is a Continuation of U.S. Patent Application No. 18/423,595, filed January 26, 2024, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety for all purposes.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 1, 7-8, 11 and 14-15 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(b) as being anticipated by Carmichae et al (US 20140282454 A1).
With respect to claims 1, 8 and 15, Carmichae et al teaches
storing objects each having a unique name in a namespace of a first bucket and files in a second bucket of a first storage cluster of the distributed storage system accessing the objects and files through an object storage protocol (OSP) ([0005] storage cluster, a cluster file system. bucket sets define file system. file systems used for storing objects namespace that is used for accessing objects);
initiating an OSP audit job on the first storage cluster to manage configuration information including audit data and management events ([0007] EOS configuration data related to file systems within a bucket set separately stored, mirrored, and backed-up storage cluster. EOS file systems for configuration management at an appliance and bucket set. [0118] access statistics and audit logs); and
synchronously replicating OSP audit configuration from the first storage cluster to the second storage cluster and mirroring audit data from the first storage cluster to the second storage cluster ([0093] EOS supports both synchronous and semi-synchronous replication. Replication to the dual is synchronous, meaning that a transaction is logged on both primary and dual before being applied to the name space. [0036] FIG. 19 for replicating file system directories. [0133] bucket set are separately stored, mirrored, and backed-up in case of file system failure, in embodiments of the present disclosure. In that manner, a single file system instance is partially redundant in that the metadata is mirrored and backed-up).
With respect to claims 7 and 14, Carmichae et al teaches synchronously replicating data of the objects into a third mirrored bucket of the second storage cluster of the distributed storage system ([0134] Replication of the underlying object storage is treated separately than the mirroring of metadata of the underlying file systems of a bucket set).
With respect to claim 11, Carmichae et al teaches perform a switchover process from the first storage cluster to the second storage cluster; and initiate an audit job on the second storage cluster based on the audit configuration during the switchover process, wherein the first storage cluster initially handles input/output operations for a software application before the switchover process ([0069] FIG. 4 the hierarchical relationship between tenants, appliances, and storage pools in an EOS system, in accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure. application associated with a tenant, one or more appliances, and one or more storage pools for storing data may be implemented within the EOS system 300 of FIG. 3).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-6, 9-10, 12-13 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 arty made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant’s disclosure.
Hazel et al (US 11468031 B1) Methods And Apparatus For Efficiently Scaling Real-time Indexing.
Considered for teaching for facilitating efficiently scaling real-time indexing. Generating a first plurality of source data objects based on source files having data received at the object storage system, generating one or more real-time manifest files based on the first plurality of source data objects, updating the index to include the one or more real-time manifest files, receiving a search query for at least one of the first plurality of source data objects and the second plurality of source data objects stored at the object storage system and generating a materialized view of a result set of the search query based on querying the index based on the search query, the manifest file, and the one or more real-time manifest files.
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/ISAAC M WOO/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2163
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