US Patent Issued to NetApp on Oct. 7 for "Usage of Op logs to synchronize across primary and secondary storage clusters of a cross-site distributed storage system and lightweight Op logging" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,707, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Usage of Op logs to synchronize across primary and secondary storage clusters of a cross-site distributed storage system and lightweight Op logging" was invented by Krishna Murthy Chandraiah Setty Narasingarayanapeta (Bangalore, India), Akhil Kaushik (Karnataka, India) and Nagaraj Lalsangi (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method comprises maintaining state information regarding a data synchronous replication status for a storage object of a primary storage cluster and a replicated storage object of a secondary storage cluster. The me...