US Patent Issued to Nvidia on July 8 for "Snapshot-based boot volume for reliable server management and immutable reboot processes in storage processing units" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,550, issued on July 8, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Snapshot-based boot volume for reliable server management and immutable reboot processes in storage processing units" was invented by David DeJong (Fremont, Calif.), Tobias Flitsch (San Jose, Calif.) and Siamak Nazari (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage processing unit (SPU), which may be resident in a server in a storage system, provides a boot volume to the server and provides storage services. The SPU may execute a process including taking three snapshots of the boot volume respectively after writing an operating system image int...