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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:
Feb. 08, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2007
Applicants:
George R. Cameron, Sant Cruz, CA (US);
Hueichian Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
George R. Cameron, Sant Cruz, CA (US);
Hueichian Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
3PAR Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A chain of snapshots includes a more recent snapshot with a data block copied from a base volume, a less recent snapshot with a skip-pointer that leads to the data block in said more recent snapshot, and one or more intermediate snapshots between the more recent snapshot and the less recent snapshot in the chain of snapshots.