ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,019, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Restarting a storage operation utilizing an instance metafile" was invented by Sanhita Praveen Dhavale (San Jose, Calif.), Tijin George (San Jose, Calif.) and Allan Jessie Sur (Union City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for a data format for efficient management of checkpoint support. The data format corresponds to a base metafile and a set of instance metafiles used to track storage operations such as a directory restore operation. The base metafile and the set of instance metafiles can be used to resume the storage operation from...