US Patent Issued to Commvault Systems on July 7 for "File indexing for virtual machine backups in a data storage management system" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,458, issued on July 7, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"File indexing for virtual machine backups in a data storage management system" was invented by Henry Wallace Dornemann (Eatontown, N.J.), Ajay Venkat Nagrale (Marlboro, N.J.) and Amit Mitkar (Manalapan, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative file indexing approach enhances what was previously possible with hypervisor-free live browsing of virtual machine (VM) block-level backup copies. Capabilities are described for indexing files discovered in VM block-level backup copies, including file content. The illustrative file indexing functional...