ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,198, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Data transfer time estimation" was invented by Kaushik Gupta (Pune, India) and Shiv S. Kumar (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can maintain respective numbers of changed bytes for respective backup paths of a file system, which indicate how many bytes have changed since respective most-recent backups of the respective backup paths. The system can, while performing a backup of a backup path of the respective backup paths, for respective tasks of the backup, determine respective amounts of time spent backing up respective files associated ...