ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,961, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Box Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Multizone migration services" was invented by Sathish Ramasubramanian (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anna Esther Min (Emeryville, Calif.) and Kevin Greenan (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for migrating cloud-based content between storage locations while maintaining availability of the content being migrated. Embodiments described herein allow data undergoing migration, even data that is inflight, to be accessed, edited, copied, moved, and/or deleted without downtime, blackout periods, or other r...