CommVault Assigned Patent

CommVault Systems, Inc., Oceanport, NJ, has been assigned a patent (8,364,914) developed by six co-inventors for "systems and methods for performing storage operations in a computer network."

The co-inventors are Rajiv Kottomtharayil, Parag Gokhale, Ocean Township, NJ, Anand Prahlad, East Brunswick, NJ, Manoj Kumar Vijayan Retnamma, Marlboro, NJ, David Ngo, Shrewsbury, NJ, and Varghese Devassy, Winnipeg, Canada.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems are described for performing storage operations on electronic data in a network. In response to the initiation of a storage operation and according to a first set of selection logic, a media management component is selected to manage the storage operation. In response to the initiation of a storage operation and according to a second set of selection logic, a network storage device to associate with the storage operation. The selected media management component and the selected network storage device perform the storage operation on the electronic data."

The patent application was filed on May 7, 2012 (13/465,890).