Accenture Global Services Assigned Patent

Accenture Global Services Limited, Dublin, Ireland, has been assigned a patent (10,102,264) developed by Tung, Teresa, Farooqui, Sameer, San Jose, CA, and Richter, Owen, Santa Clara, CA, for a “distributed computing backup and recovery system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The distributed computing backup and recovery, (DCBR) system and method provide backup and recovery for distributed computing models, (e.g., NoSQL). The DCBR system extends the protections from server node-level failure and introduces persistence in time so that the evolving data set may be stored and recovered to a past point in time. The DCBR system, instead of performing backup and recovery for an entire dataset, may be configured to apply to a subset of data. Instead of keeping or recovering snapshots of the entire dataset which requires the entire cluster, the DCBR system identifies the particular nodes and/or archive files where the dataset resides so that backup or recovery may be done with a much smaller number of nodes.”

The patent application was filed on November 25, 2014 (14/553,266).