US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 28 for "Smart prioritization of containers for data protection using supervised learning" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,792, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Smart prioritization of containers for data protection using supervised learning" 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: "A container prioritization process helps schedule backups of containerized data based on defined attributes and historical data. Containers are classified using a KNN-based classifier based on attributes. A tagger component assigns a priority tag to each container. Containers are backed up by a backup server through a schedule...