US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 12 for "Remote backup restore with a local dedupe engine" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,772, issued on May 12, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Remote backup restore with a local dedupe engine" was invented by Shiv Kumar (Pune, India) and Kaushik Gupta (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can maintain a backup of data stored on a source computer, wherein the backup is stored on a remote computer. The system can maintain, on the source computer, a file catalog, wherein the file catalog comprises a local path for a first file on the source computer, a remote backup location for the first file on the remote computer, and a first hash of the first file. The system can determine that a co...