US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on April 15 for "Storage space determinations for snapshots" (Colorado, Idaho, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,139, issued on April 15, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Storage space determinations for snapshots" was invented by Tessa DeMuth (Ft. Collins, Colo.), Matthew S. Gates (Houston), Monica Jane Kinney (Boise, Idaho) and Christopher Robert Nichols (Meridian, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a system maintains, for a base storage structure and a collection of snapshots associated with the base storage structure, statistics relating to usage of storage space based on data of the base storage structure and the collection of snapshots. The system checks metadata of a first sna...