US Patent Issued to EMC IP Holding on July 1 for "Coordinated data protection for multiple networking devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,218, issued on July 1, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Coordinated data protection for multiple networking devices" was invented by Adam Brenner (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Mark Malamut (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Arun Murti (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are described for a method and system of applying data protection software mechanisms to network devices to auto-discover the networking equipment, save changes from memory (TCAM) to local storage, backup changes to protection storage, provide auditing and tracking history of changes, and provide the ability to deploy test/dev...