Pivotal Software Assigned Patent

Pivotal Software, Inc., San Francisco, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,665,443) developed by Nagendran, Swetha Devarayasamudram, Novick, Ivan D., Sunnyvale, CA, McAtamney, James Bryan, Subramanya, Abhijit B., San Mateo, CA, and Sharma, Richa, Sunnyvale, CA, for a “filtered incremental backups.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing filtered backups of a distributed database. One of the methods includes receiving a user request to generate an incremental backup to be added to a user specified backup sequence for a distributed database, wherein the user specified backup sequence specifies a subset of one or more database tables to be included in backups in the user specified backup sequence. Dirty partitions of the one or more tables covered by the user specified backup sequence are identified, wherein a dirty partition is a table partition that was created or modified after generation of a most recent backup in the user specified backup sequence. An incremental backup to be added to the user specified backup sequence is generated, the incremental backup comprising contents of the dirty partitions of the tables covered by the user specified backup sequence.“

The patent application was filed on January 8, 2014 (14/150,235).