ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,195, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Checkpoint-based data replication" was invented by David Grunwald (San Francisco), Thomas Gill (Bury St Edmunds, Great Britain), John Colgrove (Los Altos, Calif.), Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.), Matthew Fay (Mountain View, Calif.), Luke Paulsen (Mountain View, Calif.) and Zong Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Continuous data protection, including sending, to a target data repository from a source data repository, metadata describing one or more updates to one or more datasets stored within the source data repository; generating...