US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 19 for "Performing incremental indexing of image backups" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,339, issued on May 19, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Performing incremental indexing of image backups" was invented by Sunil Yadav (Bangalore, India) and Shelesh Chopra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein relate to a method for performing backups of virtual machines on a host. The method includes obtaining an incremental image backup generation request associated with a virtual machine (VM) of the host; obtaining current file system metadata associated with the VM; obtaining previous backup metadata associated with the VM; generating updated file system metadata that in...