ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,266, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).
"Migration to cloud storage" was invented by Amit Mitkar (Manalapan, N.J.) and Paramasivam Kumarasamy (Morganville, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During a data protection operation, a data storage system can collect computing attributes associated with hosting of an application generating data being backed up and may also obtain information relating to physical characteristics of the computing device hosting the application and the data. At the time of migration to a cloud, the system can use the collected attributes and/or information to provi...