US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 15 for "Content aware dynamic data pool allocation" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,034, issued on April 15, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Content aware dynamic data pool allocation" was invented by Avinash Kumar (Patna, India), Mahesh Reddy Av (Bangalore, India) and Terry O'Callaghan (Hopkinton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data protection system protects the data with the appropriate level of security and tiering for storage in data pools. The system includes a content awareness feature that is utilized to classify and analyze the data to be backed up and assigns the classified data to the appropriate data pool dynamically. It uses a classifying software development kit (SDK) or a...