ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,146, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Maintaining timestamp parity of objects with alternate data streams during transition phase to synchronous state" was invented by Krishna Murthy Chandraiah setty Narasingarayanapeta (Bangalore, India) and Preetham Kudgi Shenoy (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for maintaining timestamp parity during a transition replay phase to a synchronous state. During a transition logging phase where metadata operations executed by a primary node are logged into a metadata log and regions modified by data operations executed by the prim...