ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,858, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Consolidating snapshots using partitioned patch files" was invented by Vijay Karthik (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Abdullah Reza (Gilroy, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of consolidating snapshots includes receiving a request to consolidate a first snapshot with a second snapshot into a third snapshot, the first and second snapshots stored in separate backup files, each backup file organized as a directory where data parts of the first and second snapshots can be hard linked to locations outside of the backup file, comparing the data parts of the first ...