US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on Aug. 12 for "Managing use of a shared virtual disk for accessing data in file based backups by multiple virtual machines" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,713, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Managing use of a shared virtual disk for accessing data in file based backups by multiple virtual machines" was invented by Sunil Yadav (Punjab, India) and Shelesh Chopra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing file based backups (FBBs) includes obtaining, by a FBB metadata file operating in a production host and from an application, a shared access request for a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) to access a FBB, accessing a FBB metadata file associated with the FBB to determine file data accessible to the plurality of VMs...