US Patent Issued to NetApp on May 19 for "Object store data management container with integrated snapshot difference interface for cataloging snapshots while resident in object store" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,340, issued on May 19, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Object store data management container with integrated snapshot difference interface for cataloging snapshots while resident in object store" was invented by Tijin George (San Jose, Calif.) and Sharankumar Yelheri (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for a snapshot difference interface integrated into an object store data management container. The snapshot difference interface is capable of interpreting an object format and snapshot file system format of snapshots backed up to an object store within objects formatted accordin...