US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Feb. 17 for "Recovery point objective validator" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,589, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Recovery point objective validator" was invented by Veeraraghavan Walajapet Deenadhayalan (San Jose, Calif.), Brian D. Hatfield (Tucson, Ariz.) and Paul Henri Muench (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment provisions a Validation Area within a consistency group of a primary site and a Validation Area within a consistency group of a secondary site. The embodiment provisions a Validation Writer in the primary site and provisions a Validation Reader in the secondary site; the Validation Writer writes a validation metric ...