US Patent Issued to NetApp on Oct. 21 for "Snapshot copy operation to copy a snapshot from source endpoint to destination endpoint" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,123, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Snapshot copy operation to copy a snapshot from source endpoint to destination endpoint" was invented by Tijin George (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sharankumar Yelheri (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sanhita Praveen Dhavale (San Jose, Calif.), Chuyi Wei (San Jose, Calif.) and Ricardo Sanchez Aguilera (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for implementing a snapshot copy operation between endpoints. One or more snapshots (e.g., snapshots of an on-premise volume) is stored within a source endpoint, such as a source bucket of an object store. A post o...