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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014

Filed:

Jun. 29, 2007
Applicants:

David Haase, Fuquay Varina, NC (US);

Somnath A. Gulve, Morrisville, NC (US);

Saurabh M. Pathak, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Inventors:

David Haase, Fuquay Varina, NC (US);

Somnath A. Gulve, Morrisville, NC (US);

Saurabh M. Pathak, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Assignee:

EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for processing read requests received during a restore operation, where a protected restore operation includes copying at least a portion of the data content of the clone to its source. The method includes receiving a read request to read data from a source during a protected restore operation. It is determined whether to redirect the read request to the clone, and in response to determining to redirect the read request to the clone, the read request is redirected to read data from the clone.


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