ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,580, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Validating integrity of replicated data" was invented by David Grunwald (San Francisco), Luke Paulsen (Mountain View, Calif.), Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.), Thomas Gill (Bury St Edmunds, Great Britain) and Yao-Cheng Tien (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Verifying that data has been correctly replicated to a replication target, including: replicating a dataset stored at a first computing system to a second computing system; and determining, based at least on a comparison of a first hash and a second hash, validity of the dataset stored ...