ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,686, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Permissions for backup-related operations" was invented by Syama Sundararao Nadiminti (Bangalore, India), Annmary Justine Koomthanam (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Keshetti Mahesh (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example techniques for granting permissions for performing an operation related to a backup copy are described. The backup copy corresponds to first device data and the first device data is stored in a first device. In an example, in response to receiving a request to perform the operation related to the backup copy...