ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,549, issued on June 2, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Data backup and recovery management using allocated data blocks" was invented by Li Ding (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data backup and recovery method and system using allocated data blocks include identifying a first snapshot associated with a virtual machine; accessing changed block tracking data associated with data changes occurred in the virtual machine, the data changes corresponding to a set of changed data blocks; accessing block allocation status data associated with the set of changed data blocks; identifying one or more allocated ...