US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Dec. 2 for "Techniques for maintaining snapshot key consistency involving garbage collection during file system cross-region replication" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,972, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques for maintaining snapshot key consistency involving garbage collection during file system cross-region replication" was invented by Satish Kumar Kashi Visvanathan (San Jose, Calif.), Viggnesh Venugopal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Stephen Anthony Fridella (Watertown, Mass.) and Ashwin Vijayavel (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for enabling concurrent cross-region replications and garbage collection while maintaining consistency and data integrity among file systems. In some embodiments, techniques ...