US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 29 for "Providing status notifications of file-copy operations to backup clients" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,309, issued on July 29, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Providing status notifications of file-copy operations to backup clients" was invented by Nachiket Vilasrao Ghorpade (Pune, India), Viral Kirtikumar Mehta (JamKhambhalia, India) and Donna Barry Lewis (Holly Springs, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client-side deduplication library receives from a backup application at a client a job request for a file-copy operation involving one or more files managed by a backup server. A server-initiated communication channel is established between the backup server and client-side deduplication library. A callback...