US Patent Issued to SAP on July 29 for "Change-aware snapshot replication" (South Korean, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,459, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Change-aware snapshot replication" was invented by Yu Gao (Xi'an, China), Junpeng Liu (Xi'an, China), Zhifeng Xu (Xi'an, China), Hyeong Seog Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Won Wook Hong (Seoul, South Korea) and Ji Hoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed techniques and solutions can provide improved snapshot replication. Typically, an initial replica obtained using snapshot replication is periodically updated. However, the update process can unnecessarily consume computing resources if data in a source data object has not changed with respec...