McAfee Assigned Patent
Intelligent backup and versioning
By Francis Pelletier | October 14, 2019 at 2:14 pmMcAfee, LLC, Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,423,782) developed by Muttik, Igor G., Berkhamsted, Great Britain, Hunt, Simon, Naples, FL, Cochin, Cedric, Portland, OR, Schmugar, Craig D., Hillsboro, OR, Leong, Robert, Beaverton, OR, Beek, Christiaan, West-Linn, OR, and Bulygin, Yury, Beaverton, OR, for “intelligent backup and versioning.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: an interface to a backup source in a current state, a backup storage having stored thereon a first backup version of a previous state of the source, and a backup engine to: compute a delta between the current state and the previous state, save via the backup storage a second backup version sufficient to reconstruct the current state, and assign the second backup version a reputation relative to one or more previous backup versions.”
The patent application was filed on December 19, 2016 (15/382,787).
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