US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Jan. 20 for "Achieving application consistent snapshots in absence of network connectivity between in-guest agent and virtual machine management center" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,218, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Achieving application consistent snapshots in absence of network connectivity between in-guest agent and virtual machine management center" was invented by Krishnendu Bagchi (Pune, India), Vipin Kaushal (Bangalore, India), Sudha Hebsur (Bangalore, India), Amarendra Behera (Bangalore, India) and Pallavi Prakash (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A command is received by a data protection agent to conduct an application-consistent backup of an application. The agent and application are installed as guests in a virtual machine (VM) provided by a...