ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,755, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Dynamically enabling/disabling change tracking on running replication for a multi-client file system" was invented by Satish Kumar Kashi Visvanathan (San Jose, Calif.), Viggnesh Venugopal (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Michael Robert Frasca (Buffalo, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A change tracking and delta generation (CTDG) system servicing multiple clients is disclosed for enabling the delta generation during replication to be proportional to the number of changes between two snapshots instead of the size of the snapshots. In some embodim...