ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,180, issued on June 23, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Self-adaptive replication for digital data storage" was invented by Kalyan C. Gunda (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Zongque Xu (Shanghai) and Chuan Wang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology is generally directed towards automatic storage of data/digital objects in a self-adaptive replication system. Data replication can be switched between synchronous (sync) replication and asynchronous (async) replication between a local storage system and a remote storage system. Latency between writing data to the local storage system and the remote st...