US Patent Issued to NetApp on Oct. 20 for "Methods and systems for restoring directories containing multi-part data containers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,615, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for restoring directories containing multi-part data containers" was invented by Rachita Kothival (San Jose, Calif.), Abhishek Naidu (San Jose, Calif.) and Agnel Ravindran (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for restoring multi-part files and directories in cloud storage environments are described. A catalog inode associated with a multi-part file is restored, containing metadata comprising inode parts corresponding to file parts. The inode parts are iteratively restored based on the catalog inode metadata. Co...