ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,513, issued on March 4, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Timestamp consistency for synchronous replication" was invented by Krishna Murthy Chandraiah setty Narasingarayanapeta (Bangalore, India) and Rakesh Bhargava M. R. (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for selectively allowing or blocking services from utilizing snapshots. A splitter intercepts and assigns timestamps to operations for execution upon files of a file system. If a snapshot is created while there are no pending operation, then the snapshot is tagged to indicate that the snapshot was created while there were no pend...