ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,675, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Synchronously negotiating an object's creation time across two or more storage systems" was invented by Kevin Kremer (Prague), Shao-Ting Chang (Milpitas, Calif.), Stanislav Kucera (Prague), Rupesh Pravinchandra Mehta (Mountain View, Calif.), Shishir Yadav (Fremont, Calif.) and Victor Yip (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synchronously negotiating an object's creation time including identifying, by a first storage system among the two or more storage systems, a request to store a second updated version of the object; detecting, by the firs...