Delphix Assigned Patent

Delphix Corporation, Redwood City, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,025,528) developed by Sun, Hubert Ken, Menlo Park, CA, Siden, Christopher G., San Francisco, CA, and Cackett, Kyle, Berkeley, CA, for “managing transformations of snapshots in a storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage system executes transform scripts to transform data stored in a source snapshot to obtain transformed snapshot. A transform script may be used to upgrade data stored in a snapshot from a version of an application to a newer version of the application. The storage system stores intermediate snapshots during execution of a transform scripts. The storage system reuses data stored during execution of transform scripts to optimize execution of newer transform scripts. For example, the storage system identifies a previously executed transform script having a matching prefix of transform operations and reuses an intermediate snapshot obtained by executing the matching prefix. The storage system processes the intermediate snapshot by executing the remaining transform operations of the new transform script.”

The patent application was filed on January 20, 2017 (15/411,476).