ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,666, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Object versioning support for a file system" was invented by Dhairesh Oza (Karnataka, India) and Roger W. Cox (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing a file system with object versioning support are provided. Rather than adding object records for each version of an object to a chapter database, in one example, the chapter database may be limited to a single object record for a given object including: (i) a name of the object; (ii) an object file handle containing information regarding a file containing data of a curren...