ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,942, issued on July 15, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).
"Selection of a simulated archiving plan for a desired dataset" was invented by Tanmay Garg (Tinton Falls, N.J.), Rishabh Singh (Long Branch, N.J.) and Richa Dilip Kulkarni (Pimpri-Chinchwad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed data storage management system enables data owners to model the costs and attributes of archiving their data and to readily capture and implement one or more resultant archiving plans. Modeling enables data owners to make informed choices about cost profiles before data is actually archived. Archiving plans devi...