US Patent Issued to EMC IP Holding on April 22 for "Detection of anomalous backup files using known anomalous file fingerprints" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,551, issued on April 22, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Detection of anomalous backup files using known anomalous file fingerprints" was invented by Tomer Shachar (Omer, Israel), Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel) and Yevgeni Gehtman (Modi'in, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for detection of anomalous backup files using known anomalous file fingerprints (or other file-dependent values such as hash values, signatures and/or digest values). One method comprises obtaining first file-dependent values corresponding to respective known anomalous files; obtaining a second file-dependent...