US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 1 for "System and method to perform changed sector backups on a volume" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,216, issued on July 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method to perform changed sector backups on a volume" was invented by Mahesh Reddy Av (Bangalore, India), Avinash Kumar (Patna, India) and Terry O'Callaghan (Hopkinton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Performing changed sector backups on a volume to improve the throughput of incremental backups for block-based backups by overwriting only modified data on each changed block. Latency reduction is achieved by not overwriting the changed block as a whole. The previous backup is cloned and the batch file in the clone is updated by considering the ...