ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,290, issued on July 8, was assigned to Delll Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Applications and file system cluster protection" was invented by Sunil Yadav (Bangalore, India), Shelesh Chopra (Bangalore, India) and Preeti Varma (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more embodiments of the invention improves upon the traditional method of performing a backup, by having a data protection manager or similar component of the system, determine, when a backup is requested, which backup agent should initially perform the backup. That backup agent may then determine among the other applicable backup agents, which backup types...