US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 17 for "Method and apparatus for reducing replication communications load" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,039, issued on March 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for reducing replication communications load" was invented by Evgeny Malkevich (Newton, Mass.) and Arieh Don (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for use in a first storage system, comprising: generating a current snapshot of a first volume that is hosted by the first storage system; when the current snapshot is a full copy of the first volume and a predetermined condition is true: identifying a first snapshot of the first volume, generating an abbreviated snapshot of the first volume corresponding to a difference b...