ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,840, issued on June 17, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwoods Shores, Calif.).
"Automatic filesystem clone generation" was invented by John Michael Harres (Thornton, Colo.), Mark Leroy Shellenbaum (Westminster, Colo.) and Bhaskar Sarkar (Alpharetta, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein relate to systems and methods of data storage, and more particularly to automatic file site clone generation. In certain embodiments, a computing device may include receiving a selection indicating that a clone directory is visible in a head node. In response to the selection indicating that the clone directory ...