American Megatrends Assigned Patent

American Megatrends, Inc., Norcross, GA, has been assigned a patent (8,706,694) developed by three co-inventors for a “CDP of files stored on a remote storage device.”

The co-inventors are Paresh Chatterjee, Fremont, CA, Sharon Samuel Enoch, Newark, CA, and Ajit Narayanan, Tamil Nadu, India.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Technologies are described herein for providing file-level CDP of files stored on a remote storage system. A client module executing on a client computer monitors for modifications made at the client computer to files or folders stored on a virtual storage volume provided by the remote storage system. Upon detecting a modification of a monitored file, the client module sends a message to the remote storage system identifying the file. A server module executing in the remote storage system receives the message identifying the modified file and copies a version of the file containing the modification from the virtual storage volume to a backup volume located in the remote storage system.“

The patent application was filed on May 27, 2009 (12/472,858).