US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 18 for "Adaptive resource allocation using data criticality for protection policies" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,998, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Adaptive resource allocation using data criticality for protection policies" was invented by Avinash Kumar (Patna, India), Mahesh Reddy Av (Bangalore, India) and Terry O'Callaghan (Hopkinton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The backup schedule for a group of routine or known clients and data objects is generally defined by default backup policies and priorities, and such policies and data assets demand resources of the system. The resource allocation among data assets being processed is analyzed and reallocated (tuned) as necessary to ensure that crit...