ServiceNow Assigned Patent

ServiceNow, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,875,061) developed by Sullivan, Josiah, Sammamish, WA, Norris, Jeremy, Poway, CA, Seguin, Vincent, Encinitas, CA, Davis, Joe, Carlsbad, CA, and Shah, Siddharth, Kirkland, WA, for a “distributed backup system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A distributed backup method includes defining a server group having a plurality of server computers, and providing each server computer with an identical backup policy and an identical storage policy. The method also includes transmitting, at each server computer of the server group to every other server computer of the server group, advertisement messages describing available storage space for storing backups, and receiving, at each server computer from the server, at least some of the advertisement messages. The method also includes identifying, at a first server computer using the backup policy, at least a first service to be backed up, selecting a second server computer using the received advertisement messages, transmitting, from the first server computer to the second server computer, a backup including information corresponding to the at least one service, and storing the backup, by the second server computer using the storage policy.”

The patent application was filed on December 5, 2016 (15/369,530).