ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,535, issued on May 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Method and apparatus for snapshot management" was invented by Shivasharan Narayana Gowda (Kolar, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: displaying, in a user interface, a snapshot list, the snapshot list identifying a plurality of snapshots of a volume or a group of volumes; detecting a first user input selecting one or more of the snapshots of the plurality of snapshots; calculating a total amount of storage space that would be freed if the selected snapshots were to be deleted; and displaying, in the user interface, an indication of the...