NetApp Assigned Patent

NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,954,789) developed by Rangachari, Muralidharan, Cupertino, CA, Barve, Anagha, Sunnyvale, CA, and Karinta, Vineeth, Fremont, CA, for a “method and system for performing recovery in a storage system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Method and system for performing recovery for a replicated copy of a storage space presented as a logical object is provided. An attribute associated with the logical object for enabling the recovery is set and when the storage space is replicated the attribute is stored as metadata for the replicated copy of the storage space. Based on the attribute, a clone of the logical object is presented as a writable option to write to the first replicated copy. After the write operation where information is written to the clone, a second replicated copy with the clone information is created. The clone is deleted after the second copy is generated.“

The patent application was filed on June 7, 2013 (13/913,054).