US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 20 for "Techniques for efficiently determining when to transition between data processing states or phases" (Massachusetts, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,618, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Techniques for efficiently determining when to transition between data processing states or phases" was invented by Prakash Venkatanarayanan (Framingham, Mass.), Girish Sheelvant (Hopkinton, Mass.), Nagapraveen Veeravenkata Seela (Cary, N.C.) and Sathya Krishna Murphy (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques can include: establishing an asynchronous replication configuration of a volume V1 of a first system and a volume V2 of a second system; determining data changes between a successive pair of snapshots of V1; transferring the data cha...