ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,890, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Automated data backup" was invented by Jason K. S. Choy (Short Hills, N.J.), Adrian Edward Kunzle (New York), Harel Oz Yadgar (Jerusalem) and Etai Litov (Gan-Yavne, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for backing up data. One of the methods includes, as part of a data backup process for a plurality of data objects, determining, for each of two or more data objects from the plurality of data objects and using metadata for the respective data object, a backup score tha...