ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,455, issued on March 31, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Parameter-based adaptive scheduling of jobs" was invented by Reut Kovetz (Tel Aviv, Israel), Hana Schuster Smith (Boulder, Colo.) and Janardan Revuru (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein is directed towards automated generation of an efficient job (e.g., data backup job) schedule based on input provided by an administrator. A precheck is performed, prior to running scheduled jobs, based on variable data. The precheck alerts of predicted problems such as possible job failures, which can be remediated manually or...