US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 26 for "Building a potentially infected file list during data protection using change block list" (New Hampshire Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,435, issued on May 26, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Building a potentially infected file list during data protection using change block list" was invented by Gerald M. Jourdain (Hudson, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes creating, or accessing, a catalog file list that comprises a list of files and, for each of the files, a respective list of blocks of that file, identifying any of the blocks that have changed since an earlier backup of the file, updating the catalog file list to indicate any of the blocks that have changed, for any file(s) determined to have one or more changed b...