ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,586, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).
"Accelerated recovery in RDF/Star and RDF/Star-A configurations" was invented by Peter Callewaert (Eernegem, Belgium) and Dennis Trulli Jr. (Hudson, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recovery leg in a Star or Star-A configured data replication system is maintained in a pseudo-active RCVY mode in which personalities of corresponding replicas of a mirror are set to R1 on both sides of the recovery leg, capture cycles are performed, and transmit cycles are discarded. During a recovery operation, tracks are marked for resynchronization in the proper directi...