ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,772, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Managing proxy virtual machines" was invented by Samir Rishi Chaudhry (Saratoga, Calif.) and Li Ding (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for managing proxy virtual machines are disclosed. In some embodiments, a computer system deploys proxy virtual machines on a data center in an intelligent way in order to optimize performance and efficiency for backing up data from and restoring data to the data center, using the topology of the data center to determine how many proxy virtual machines to deploy and on which specific hosts to deploy the ...