ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,938, issued on July 28, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Multi-protocol backup proxy with DDBoost backend" was invented by Omkar Anand Ekbote (Pune, India) and Vikas Jagannath Chaudhary (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backup process implemented by generating data to be backed up from a file-based application or an object-based application from a respective application host. A generic proxy component collocated with the application host is deployed and contains protocol specific servers and a DDBoost client. The data is transmitted from the application host to the generic proxy using a defined file ...