ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,944, issued on May 13, was assigned to Egnyte Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"System and method for eliminating full rescan synchronizations on service restarts" was invented by Remus Koos (San Jose, Calif.), Tal Broner (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Harikesavan Krishnan (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel method for restarting a steady-state synchronization process includes persisting synchronization data in non-volatile memory before restarting, and utilizing the persisted synchronization data to restart the synchronization where the prior steady-state synchronization process left off. In a particular embodiment, the s...