US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on Jan. 28 for "Expanding discovery during backup generation to generate snapshot backups" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,416, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Expanding discovery during backup generation to generate snapshot backups" was invented by Sunil Yadav (Bangalore, India) and Shelesh Chopra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein relate to a method for performing generating backups of host snapshots. The method may include identifying, by a data protection agent of a host, an asset discovery event associated with the host; in response to identifying the asset discovery event: obtaining file system metadata associated with the host from a file system metadata repositor...