US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 9 for "Method for optimizing a remote data copy using multiple nodes" (North Carolina, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,628, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method for optimizing a remote data copy using multiple nodes" was invented by Alan L. Taylor (Cary, N.C.), Nagapraveen V. Seela (Cary, N.C.) and Anitta Jose (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for optimizing a remote data copy using multiple storage nodes. The techniques include receiving a copy command for a volume at a first node, a first subset of VOL slices being owned by the first node, and a second subset of VOL slices being owned by a second node. The techniques include obtaining, by the first node, respective diff bitmaps fo...