ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,493, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Preventing resource starvation in backup session" was invented by Upanshu Singhal (Bangalore, India), Shelesh Chopra (Bangalore, India) and Ashish Kumar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a backup operation, the method comprising receiving a backup request for an asset, partitioning, based on available capacity in a proxy infrastructure, a plurality of slices of the asset into a plurality of backup sessions, wherein each backup session comprises a separate portion of the slices, wherein the plurality of slices are asso...