US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 24 for "Activity-based snapshot creation" (American, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,548, issued on March 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Activity-based snapshot creation" was invented by Andrey Voropaev (Warsaw, Poland), Evan Jones (Glenville, N.Y.) and Douglas LeCrone (Hopkinton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Write IO operations on a set of storage volumes of a storage volume group are monitored, and one or more activity-based snapshot creation write IO thresholds are used to identify triggering events to create snapshots of the set of storage volumes. Activity-based snapshot creation write IO thresholds may be based on a total number of write IO operations that must occur on the s...