Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Storage accessing and control – Control technique
Reexamination Certificate
2008-04-16
2011-12-20
Farrokh, Hashem (Department: 2188)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory
Storage accessing and control
Control technique
C707S639000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08082407
ABSTRACT:
Boot consolidation based on writeable volume snapshots can leverage flexible mappings of snapshot dependencies. Such flexible mappings can be established by relating sequence numbers associated with various volume snapshots and can provide for an arbitrarily complex mapping to support a potentially unlimited number of writable snapshots in potentially any dependency configuration. Additionally, the pinning of volumes can provide support for chains of snapshots to depend from snapshots within other chains of snapshots. Merge agents can operate with writable snapshots and boot consolidation to provide system-wide updates where security patches, upgrades, and application software may be applied to a group of servers or a group of users in an efficient fashion.
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Chatterjee Paresh
Ganapathy Narayanaswami
Jayaraman Raja
Narayanan Ajit
American Megatrends Inc.
Farrokh Hashem
McKeon Meunier Carlin & Curfman LLC
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