US Patent Issued to Nutanix on July 22 for "File analytics systems and methods including retrieving metadata from file system snapshots" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,108, issued on July 22, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"File analytics systems and methods including retrieving metadata from file system snapshots" was invented by Ketan Kotwal (Maharashtra, India), Pankaj Kumar Sinha (San Jose, Calif.) and Sagar Gupta (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of file analytics systems are described that may obtain metadata data from a virtualized file server using a snapshot of the file virtualized file. The analytics system may mount a snapshot to retrieve metadata used in determining an overall size, structure, owner, permissions, and/or storage locations of pa...