Symantec Assigned Patent

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,140,187) developed by Chan, Leo, Chevy Chase, MD, and Sokolov, Ilya, Boston, MA, for “techniques for system backup.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Techniques for system backup are disclosed. In one embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method including identifying a particular characteristic of a particular modification of a default automated procedure for selecting files to include in an off-site backup, wherein the identifying is based at least in part on an aggregation of data from many client devices as to how each of many users deviated from the default automated selection procedure, receiving a first system profile for a first client device, identifying the particular characteristic in the first system profile, and based on identifying the particular characteristic in the first system profile, applying a modified default automated selection procedure to the first client device, the modified default automated selection procedure including the particular modification identified with the particular characteristic.”

The patent application was filed on June 30, 2015 (14/788,241).