ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,418, issued on July 29, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Granular replication of volume subsets" was invented by Vijay Mohan Deshmukh (Fremont, Calif.), Atul Ramesh Pandit (San Jose, Calif.) and Pawan Saxena (Pleasanton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data is replicated on a backup node, where the granularity of the replication can be less than a full volume. A data consistency group comprising a subset of data for a volume is defined for a primary node. A set of differences for the data consistency group is sent to a backup node. The backup node creates change logs in response to receiving the set of differenc...