CA Assigned Patent

CA Inc., Islandia, NY, has been assigned a patent (8,429,308) developed by five co-inventors for a "system and method for migrating data from a storage device."

The co-inventors are Shivesh Kumar Pappu, Bihar, India, Santosh Kumar Gupta, Uttar Pradesh, India, Laural S. Gentry, Berkshire, UK, Nishant S. Thorat, Maharashtra, India, and Arvind Raghavendran, Andhra Pradesh, India.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for migrating data from a storage device includes accessing data on a storage device. The method also includes providing at least one interface that allows for selecting a first OS stored on the storage device. The interface further allows for selecting one or more settings stored on the storage device. The method further includes initiating a migration of the one or more settings from the storage device. The method further includes storing the one or more settings."

The patent application was filed on Jan. 29, 2009 (12/362,205).