US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 8 for "Cluster-wide application consistency with volume group snapshot" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,722, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Cluster-wide application consistency with volume group snapshot" was invented by Phuong N. Hoang (San Jose, Calif.), Sukarna Grandhi (Fremont, Calif.) and Thomas Watson (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a method for providing cluster-wide, application consistent operations in a distributed network by creating a single volume snapshot object on a server for all of volumes of a distributed application. A snapshot controller creates volume snapshot content for each volume, and an external snapshot process, upon creation of the v...