US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 15 for "Method and apparatus for snapshot creation" (American, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,325, issued on April 15, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for snapshot creation" was invented by Brett Quinn (Cotuit, Mass.), Evan Jones (Glenville, N.Y.) and Peter Callewaert (Puurs-Sint-Amands, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, comprising: retrieving a VDG definition; processing the VDG definition to identify a primary storage system and one or more secondary storage systems; detecting a consistency formation event; transmitting a first instruction to initialize one or more data structures for a first snapshot of a volume that is stored in the primary storage system; transmit...