ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,436, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Managing files according to categories" was invented by Chaitanya Sudhakar Gotkhindikar (Ejipura, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to various embodiments, with respect to a target set of files being managed (e.g., protected by data snapshots), each file in the target set of files is classified into one of two or more filesets (discontiguous filesets), where each of these filesets comprises one or more files that are related to each other by one or more factors, such as frequency of file change or purpose of existence (e.g., used by a software applic...