ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,751, issued on June 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Identifying keywords for indexing content and searching backups" was invented by James Morton (Adamstown, Md.), Sybil Guan (Shanghai), Zak Yujun Liang (Shanghai), Xiang Zhang (Shanghai), Tony Yao (Shanghai), Lihui Su (Shanghai) and Roger Che (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system identifies a list of frequently identified keywords, which are identified based on frequencies that each frequently identified keyword is in any backup document and frequencies that any backup document contains each frequently identified keyword. The system identifies a...