ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,560, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Mirroring objects between different cloud providers" was invented by Palak Sharma (Haryana, India), Cheryl Marie Thompson (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Qinghua Zheng (San Jose, Calif.) and Venkateswarlu Tella (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for mirroring objects between object stores hosted by cloud providers that could have different data layout requirements. An object may be stored within an object store that supports a unified object format where the object is capable of storing compressed data. The object may be mirrored to a ...