US Patent Issued to NetApp on Sept. 16 for "Mirroring objects between different cloud providers with different data layout requirements" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,150, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Mirroring objects between different cloud providers with different data layout requirements" 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 have different data layout requirements. An object may be stored within a first object store that supports a fix offset format where uncompressed data is stored according to fixe...