US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 23 for "Point-in-time backup of application data stored on disparate storage systems" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,189, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Point-in-time backup of application data stored on disparate storage systems" was invented by Robert C. Hooper (Markham, Canada), Christian Garcia-Arellano (Richmond Hill, Canada), Alexander Cheung (North York, Canada), Hamdi Roumani (Toronto), David Kalmuk (Markham, Canada) and Ketan Rampurkar (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for creating a point-in-time backup of application data stored on disparate storage systems. The techniques include initiating a snapshot of the first datastore. The techniques furthe...