Tintri Assigned Patent

Tintri Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,946,604) developed by Glass, Gideon W., Los Altos, CA, for an “optimized remote cloning.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Optimized remoting cloning is disclosed, including: receiving data from a source storage system associated with an ongoing replication process of a snapshot, and prior to the completion of the replication process of the snapshot, generating a set of metadata associated with a clone of the snapshot, wherein at least a portion of data comprising the snapshot that has been received at the destination storage system can be read using the clone while the replication process of the snapshot is ongoing.”

The patent application was filed on February 2, 2016 (15/013,859).