ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,740, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Data control apparatus and data control method" was invented by Masahiro Arai (Tokyo), Akira Deguchi (Tokyo) and Hideyuki Koseki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a storage system that is connected via networks to a cloud system, which provides an object store, and backs up backup data of a predetermined volume as an object to the object store, the storage system includes a processor, and the processor is configured to determine whether the storage system stores a snapshot associated with a volume at a first point in time to be restored, and rest...