US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 19 for "Confirmation of retention locked compliance data presence in a backup server" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,592, issued on May 19, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Confirmation of retention locked compliance data presence in a backup server" was invented by Jagannathdas Rath (Bangalore, India) and Srisailendra Yallapragada (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Preventing unwanted instant data destruction of retention locked compliance data. A directory tree of the backup system is assigned a last expiry date value, which is originally initialized to zero. The last expiry date value is compared with an expiry date of a retention lock (RL) set on files in the system. If the expiry date of the RL is after the ...