US Patent Issued to NETAPP on June 24 for "Failover methods and system in a networked storage environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,755, issued on June 24, was assigned to NETAPP INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Failover methods and system in a networked storage environment" was invented by Ratnesh Gupta (Dublin, Calif.), Kalaivani Arumugham (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ram Kesavan (Los Altos, Calif.) and Ravikanth Dronamraju (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Failover methods and systems for a storage environment are provided. During a takeover operation to take over storage of a first storage system node by a second storage system node, the second storage system node copies information from a first storage location to a second storage location. The first stora...