US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 16 for "Untrusted remote replication partnering" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,550, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Untrusted remote replication partnering" was invented by Lior Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel), Arieh Don (Newton, Mass.) and Efi Levi (Beer Sheba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Different management applications corresponding to different private computing systems that are untrusted with respect to each other reciprocally agree to store for each other replicated versions of logical volumes of storage arrays as backups. A management server corresponding to one or more storage arrays at a local one of the computing systems encrypts a volume to be backe...