US Patent Issued to NetApp on March 3 for "Methods and systems to improve resumption time of input/output (I/O) operations based on prefetching of configuration data and early abort of conflicting workflows during a non-disruptive automatic unplanned failover from a primary copy of data at a primary storage system to a mirror copy of the data at a cross-site secondary storage system" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,550, issued on March 3, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems to improve resumption time of input/output (I/O) operations based on prefetching of configuration data and early abort of conflicting workflows during a non-disruptive automatic unplanned failover from a primary copy of data at a primary storage system to a mirror copy of the data at a cross-site secondary storage system" was invented by Anoop Vijayan (Karnataka, India), Akhil Kaushik (San Jose, Calif.), Sohan Shetty (Bangalore, India) and Dhruvil Shah (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-site distributed storage systems and...