US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Dec. 30 for "Efficient auto retention lock (ARL) policy implementation during backup job initiation" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,197, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Efficient auto retention lock (ARL) policy implementation during backup job initiation" was invented by Jagannathdas Rath (Bangalore, India) and Srisailendra Yallapragada (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible retention lock system defines, as attributes, an automatic retention lock (ARL) period specifying an amount of time to lock the file, and a cooling (COP) period specifying an amount of time within the first ARL after which the file will be locked if no modifications are made to the file during the first COP. These attributes are...