ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,002, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"System and method for efficient block level granular replication" was invented by Rithin Shetty (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vishwajith Shivappa (Mysore, India), Paul Lockwood (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Pawan Saxena (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Preethi Gopaulakrishnan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for efficiently restoring one or more data containers is provided. A common persistent consistency point image (PCPI) is identified between a source and a destination storage systems prior to the destination storage system performing a rollback o...