CommVault Assigned Two Patents

Managing connections in storage system
CommVault Systems, Inc., Oceanport, NJ, has been assigned a patent (8,769,635) developed by Prakash Varadharajan, Manalapan, NJ, Henry Wallace Dornemann, Eatontown, NJ, and Parag Gokhale, Marlboro, NJ, for “managing connections in a storage system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Described in detail herein are systems and methods for managing connections in a data storage system. For example, the systems and methods may be used to manage connections between two or more computing devices for purposes of performing storage operations on the data of one of the computing devices. The data storage system includes at least two computing devices. A first computing device includes an unauthorized connection data structure and a connection manager component. The connection manager component receives a connection request from a second computing device. If the second computing device is not identified on the unauthorized connection data structure, the connection manager component can request that an authentication manager authenticate the second computing device and/or determine whether the second computing device is properly authorized. If so, the connection manager component can allow the second computing device to connect to the first computing device.”

The patent application was filed on April 30, 2013 (13/874,358).

Storage operation access security
CommVault Systems, Inc. Oceanport, NJ, has been assigned a patent (8,762,335) developed by Anand Prahlad, Bangalore, India, and Srinivas Kavuri, Bangalore, India, for a “system and method for storage operation access security.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method and system for controlling access to stored data is provided. The storage access control system leverages a preexisting security infrastructure of a system to inform the proper access control that should be applied to data stored outside of its original location, such as a data backup. The storage access control system may place similar access control restrictions on the backup files that existed on the original files. In this way, the backed up data is given similar protection as that of the original data.”

The patent application was filed on May 21, 2013 (13/899,384).