US Patent Issued to Oracle International on March 18 for "Techniques for scalable distributed system backups" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,915, issued on March 18, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques for scalable distributed system backups" was invented by Shmuel Herman (Kirkland, Wash.) and Gabriel Thomas Hurley (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques discussed herein manage backups of a service cell (SC). Each SC may include a data plane that is isolated from other SCs and comprises a distributed computing cluster (a cluster). A manifest that specifies one or more backup policies may be used to generate a full backup or a partial backup of a data set stored by the cluster. In accordance with the manifest...