US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 20 for "Techniques for creating identical snapshots of replicated volumes" (North Carolina, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,791, issued on May 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Techniques for creating identical snapshots of replicated volumes" was invented by Alan L. Taylor (Cary, N.C.), Nagapraveen Veeravenkata Seela (Cary, N.C.) and Girish Sheelvant (Hopkinton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least one embodiment, processing can include: receiving a request to create identical snapshots of volumes V1 and V2 configured as a stretched volume; and in response to receiving the request, performing first processing including: holding write acknowledgements for the stretched volume; tracking writes to the stretched volume; cr...