US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 1 for "Failure recovery in a replication environment using a vector clock" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,678, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Failure recovery in a replication environment using a vector clock" was invented by Keyur B. Desai (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes performing replication operations and/or failure recovery operations for replication operations in a computing system using vector clocks. Each node or process in a computing system is associated with a vector clock that reflects streams available at nodes. As the replication operation is performed, the vector clocks are updated. When a failure is detected or when insufficient streams are ...