AT&T Intellectual Property and University of Massachusetts Assigned Patent

AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA, and University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, has been assigned a patent (10,152,398) developed by Ramakrishnan, Kadangode K., Berkeley Heights, NJ, Lagar-Cavilla, Horacio Andres, Toronto, Canada, Shenoy, Prashant, Northampton, MA, Van der Merwe, Jacobus, New Providence, NJ, and Wood, Timothy, Columbia, MD, for a “pipelined data replication for disaster recovery.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Pipelined data replication for disaster recovery is disclosed. An example pipelined data replication method for disaster recovery disclosed herein comprises sending replicated first data from a primary processing environment to a secondary processing environment for backup by the secondary processing environment, the replicated first data being a replica of first data in the primary processing environment, processing the first data in the primary processing environment prior to the backup of the replicated first data by the secondary processing environment being confirmed, and preventing a result of the processing of the first data from being released by the primary processing environment until the backup of the replicated first data by the secondary processing environment is confirmed.”

The patent application was filed on August 2, 2012 (13/565,494).