US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 16 for "Instant file system snapshot restoration" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,015, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Instant file system snapshot restoration" was invented by Hai Zhong Zhou (Beijing), Frank Schmuck (Campbell, Calif.), Kuei-Yu Wang-Knop (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Owen T. Anderson (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Snapshot restoration based on a correlation of a snapshot namespace with a file system namespace is provided. A restore command is received, following which the correlation between the file system namespace of the file system with the snapshot namespace of a snapshot of the file system is performed. Further a file oper...