US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on June 23 for "Data protection using a timer-controlled immutable journal" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,936, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Data protection using a timer-controlled immutable journal" was invented by Omer Uretzky (Herzliya, Israel) and Gil Barash (Herzliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a data protection system replicates write input/output (I/O) operations to entries of a journal stored in a storage system, and associates timers with the entries of the journal to provide timer-controlled immutability of the entries of the journal. Based on a first timer associated with a first entry of the entries of the journal indicating that a ...