US Patent Issued to Pure Storage on Feb. 18 for "Cluster-wide snapshotting of a container system cluster" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,023, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Cluster-wide snapshotting of a container system cluster" was invented by Luis Pablo Pabon (Sturbridge, Mass.) and Aditya Kulkarni (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative method includes detecting a request to perform a cluster-wide snapshot of a cluster comprising one or more nodes on which one or more containerized applications are deployed, the snapshot corresponding to a point in time; preparing, based on the request, objects within the cluster for the snapshot; and generating, in response to the preparing, the cluster-wide sn...