ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,127, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Maintaining object policy implementation across different storage systems" was invented by Andrew Sillifant (Nottingham, Great Britain) and Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of maintaining a policy implementation for an object across different storage systems are disclosed. The method includes determining, for an object to be copied from a first storage system, one or more object policies that are applicable to the object; generating metadata that triggers application of the one or more policies at an other ...