ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,805, issued on June 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Facilitating access to fragmented snapshot data" was invented by Yosef Shatsky (Karnei Shomron, Israel) and Doron Tal (Geva Carmel, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided to facilitate access to fragmented snapshot data. For example, a storage control system generates a snapshot data structure of a storage volume. The snapshot data structure comprises plurality of nodes comprising a volume node and one or more snapshot nodes, the volume node is configured to store new and updated data that is written to logical offsets of the storage...