US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 3 for "Method and apparatus for snapshot management" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,589, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for snapshot management" was invented by David Goncalves (Acushnet, Mass.) and Evan Jones (Glenville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for use in a storage system including a primary storage system and a secondary storage system, the method comprising: starting an asynchronous replication manager; detecting that an intrusion detector has detected an intrusion in the primary storage system; in response to the intrusion being detected, causing the asynchronous replication manager to stop transmission, to a secondary storage sys...