ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,301, issued on July 29, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Dataset image creation" was invented by Stephen Wu (Sacramento, Calif.), Prathamesh Deshpande (San Jose, Calif.) and Manan Patel (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application may store data to a dataset comprising a plurality of volumes stored on a plurality of storage systems. The application may request a dataset image of the dataset, the dataset image comprising a volume image of each volume of the dataset. A dataset image manager operates with a plurality of volume image managers in parallel to produce the dataset image, each volume image ...