NexGen Storage/Pivot3 Assigned Patent

NexGen Storage, Inc., Louisville, CO, (acquired by Pivot3)has been assigned a patent (10,140,303) developed by Patterson, John A., Niwot, CO, for an “application aware snapshots.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for creating an application-aware snapshot of a storage volume. A network association module is configured to determine an owner for a storage volume. A requester module is configured to request a snapshot operation for a storage volume. A snapshot operation may be initiated from a storage appliance. A provider module is configured to create a snapshot of data of a storage volume in a storage appliance in response to a determined owner quiescing activity for the storage volume.”

The patent application was filed on August 24, 2015 (14/833,532).