US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Jan. 27 for "Leveraging backup process metadata for data recovery optimization" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,076, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Leveraging backup process metadata for data recovery optimization" was invented by Sunil Yadav (Bangalore, India) and Shelesh Chopra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for leveraging backup process metadata for data recovery optimization. Concerning file-system data protection, recovery operations tend to be exhaustive processes that often require extensive storage space and network bandwidth, among other, resources. Further, many existing file-system recovery solutions tend to implement whole or full data transfers (i.e.,...