US Patent Issued to EMC IP Holding on Dec. 9 for "Near continuous data protection without using snapshots" (Israeli, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,524, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Near continuous data protection without using snapshots" was invented by Jehuda Shemer (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Ravi Vijayakumar Chitloor (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes performing delta operations to protect data. A delta queue is provided that allows a replica volume to be rolled forwards and backwards in time. When rolling the replica volume forward, an undo delta is created such that the replica volume can be moved backwards after being moved forward. When rolling the replica volume backwards, a forward de...