ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,788, issued on June 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Non-impactful backup of a deleted data set" was invented by Glenn Randle Wilcock (Tucson, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, for creating a backup copy of a deleted file based on a previous backup copy of the file to be deleted includes creating a deleted data set record associated with a file in association with deletion of the file, wherein the file comprises a file data set. The file data set is removed from a catalog containing the file data set. The method includes freeing p...