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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:
Apr. 16, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2010
Applicant:
Kadir Ozdemir, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Kadir Ozdemir, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Various systems and methods are disclosed to share a single copy of a storage object among clones. For example, one method involves creating a first and second clone. The first and second clones share a single copy of a storage object. The first clone is assigned an identifier based on the value of a variable. After creating the first clone the variable is incremented. The second clone is assigned the value of the incremented variable as an identifier.