ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,784, issued on April 21, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Data integrity verification for network file systems" was invented by Srinivas Shekar (Bangalore, India), Sakthi Kumar (Bangalore, India), Ulka Vaze (Pune, India) and Praveen Kumar Singh (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer is configured to execute network file system (NFS) client software, and issue NFS commands to an NFS server along with checksums that are used by the NFS server to verify the integrity of remote procedure call (RPC) packets that include the NFS commands, by performing the steps of: computing a first checksum of a first RPC...