US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 10 for "Anomaly detection using change blocks and disk extents" (New Hampshire Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,719, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Anomaly detection using change blocks and disk extents" was invented by Gerald M. Jourdain (Hudson, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Anomaly detection in data protection operations is disclosed. During a data protection operation, blocks being backed up are sorted and associated with metadata including file system metadata. Anomaly detection operations are performed using the metadata to detect anomalies. More specifically, the blocks are evaluated or analyzed using one or more types of anomaly detection. Remediation actions are performed in response to...