US Patent Issued to EMC IP Holding on Nov. 25 for "Just in time removal of corrupted info and files from backups on restore" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,560, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Just in time removal of corrupted info and files from backups on restore" was invented by Kalyan C. Gunda (Bangalore, India) and Chris E. Rowen (Bedford, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes receiving a request to restore a backed up dataset, checking a tracking catalogue to identify any content of the dataset that is prohibited from being restored, preventing restoration of the content, and restoring all of the dataset, except the content, to a restore target. The prohibited content may be one or more files, or portions of ...