US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 17 for "Method, device, and computer program product for recovering data" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,844, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method, device, and computer program product for recovering data" was invented by Weibing Zhang (Beijing), Lei Gao (Beijing) and Chen Gong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for recovering data involve, in response to detecting that a data block of a storage system is attacked, determining one or more attacked data blocks, wherein snapshots in multiple snapshots of the storage system have snapshot replicate numbers. Such techniques further involve determining one or more data block replicate numbers of the one or more attacked data blocks. ...