US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Oct. 20 for "Intelligent data slicing" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,620, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Intelligent data slicing" was invented by Surya Kiran Laskar (Norwood, N.J.) and Shishir Sharad Kinkar (Englewood, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for backing up a data object in blocks. One of the methods includes determining, for a data object of a backup process, whether a size of the data object or an estimated backup time of the data object satisfies a criterion that, when satisfied, indicates that at least two blocks of the data object should be separately ...