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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2003
Applicants:
Nitin Muppalaneni, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abhijeet P. Gole, Campbell, CA (US);
Michael L. Federwisch, San Jose, CA (US);
Mark Smith, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Nitin Muppalaneni, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abhijeet P. Gole, Campbell, CA (US);
Michael L. Federwisch, San Jose, CA (US);
Mark Smith, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method for mirroring data representing a file system. The data is stored on a primary storage server and is mirrored on a secondary storage server. In the method the file system is mirrored without comparing blocks used to that represent the file system at the primary storage server, and the secondary storage server.