US Patent Issued to Rubrik on Dec. 2 for "Fileset partitioning for data storage and management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,887, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Fileset partitioning for data storage and management" was invented by Looi Chow Lee (Mountain View, Calif.) and Guilherme Vale Ferreira Menezes (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one approach, filesets to be backed up are divided into partitions and snapshots are pulled for each partition. In one architecture, a data management and storage (DMS) cluster includes a plurality of peer DMS nodes and a distributed data store implemented across the peer DMS nodes. One of the peer DMS nodes receives fileset metadata for the fileset and defines a plurali...