US Patent Issued to Pure Storage on Aug. 12 for "Snapshot difference namespace of a file system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,782, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Snapshot difference namespace of a file system" was invented by Padmanabhan Nagarajan (Cupertino, Calif.), Subramaniam Periyagaram (Campbell, Calif.) and Dongqi Xue (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative method includes a storage system establishing a snapshot difference namespace within a directory of a file system, storing, within the snapshot difference namespace, snapshot difference data descriptive of differences between snapshots associated with the directory of the file system, and exposing the snapshot difference data w...