ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,209, issued on July 1, was assigned to EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).
"Systems and methods for data mover selection" was invented by Sukarna Grandhi (Fremont, Calif.) and Seema Parveen (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein relate to a method for performing data backup operations. The method may include receiving a request to perform a backup operation to back up data associated with a cluster in a virtualization environment; executing, in response to the request, a data mover selection algorithm to select a data mover to perform the backup operation; transmitting an instruction...