US Patent Issued to Dell Products on June 24 for "Managing transient snapshots for reduced metadata writes" (Massachusetts, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,781, issued on June 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Managing transient snapshots for reduced metadata writes" was invented by Vamsi K. Vankamamidi (Hopkinton, Mass.), Mayank Ajmera (Cary, N.C.), Vikram Prabhakar (Apex, N.C.) and Socheavy Heng (Framingham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for managing transient snapshots identifies an instruction to create a transient snapshot with an indicator and attempts to delay, based on the indicator, flushing of the instruction from cache to a mapping subsystem at least until the cache receives an instruction to delete the transient snapshot."

The pat...