ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,433, issued on March 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Method and apparatus for snapshot management" was invented by Mahadev Agasar (Rabkavi, India) and Hemanth Dasan (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for use in a storage system, comprising: identifying snapshot storage space consumption information that corresponds to a snapshot storage space; identifying a snapshot management metric that is associated with the snapshot storage space, the snapshot management metric being identified based on the snapshot storage space consumption information; and outputting an indication of the snapsh...