ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,811, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).
"Efficient storage device handling in remote replication" was invented by Arieh Don (Newton, Mass.), Lev Knopov (Brookline, Mass.) and Igor Achkinazi (Northboro, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a software-defined data storage system with a production node and local and remote storage nodes that replicate data generated by an application running on the production node, all filesystem metadata associated with remotely replicated devices is copied from the remote storage node to memory of the production node in response to establishment of a communicat...