Quantum Assigned Patent
Data replica control
By Francis Pelletier | May 16, 2022 at 2:00 pmQuantum Corp., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,314,420) developed by Wade, Gregory L., San Jose, CA, and Haile, J. Mitchell, Somerville, MA, for a “data replica control.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A replica control system includes software to control replication in virtual environments. The replica control system identifies a plurality of data blocks within an underlying storage volume in response to a request to update a replica of a target storage volume, identifies changed data blocks of the plurality of data blocks within the underlying storage volume, and identifies a subset of the changed data blocks with which to update the replica of the target storage volume based on a characteristic of the changed data blocks.”
The patent application was filed on January 6, 2017 (15/400,265).