US Patent Issued to Rubrik on May 20 for "Quiescent operation of non-disruptive update of a data management system" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,240, issued on May 20, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Quiescent operation of non-disruptive update of a data management system" was invented by Smriti Agrawal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Schuyler Merritt Smith (San Francisco), Patricia Ann Beekman (Palo Alto, Calif.), Pooja Sinha (Bengaluru, India), Vabilisetti Mohan Abhyas (Bengaluru, India) and Ajay Shekar (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of data management are described. During an update procedure for serially updating a cluster of storage nodes, a storage node of the cluster of storage nodes may enter a quiescent state. While in the quiescent stat...