US Patent Issued to NetApp on June 3 for "Methods and systems for a non-disruptive automatic unplanned failover from a primary copy of data at a primary storage system to a mirror copy of the data at a cross-site secondary storage system" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,246, issued on June 3, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for a non-disruptive automatic unplanned failover from a primary copy of data at a primary storage system to a mirror copy of the data at a cross-site secondary storage system" was invented by Rakesh Bhargava (Karnataka, India), Akhil Kaushik (Karnataka, India), Divya Kathiresan (Bangalore, India) and Mukul Verma (Rajasthan, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-site distributed storage systems and computer-implemented methods are described for providing an automatic unplanned failover (AUFO) feature to guarantee non-disruptive operations ...