Quest Software Assigned Patent

Quest Software Inc., Aliso Viejo, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,649,671) developed by Shoultz, Nathan N., and Willis, Tomas, Madison, WI, for “processing unknown or unexpected properties encountered during migration or archiving operations.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A network-based solution for processing unknown or unexpected property encountered during a migration or archiving operation may include, as embodied in various systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media, accessing a plurality of objects stored in memory of a source computing system. The solution may include performing a discovery assessment on each of a plurality of operator-selected objects. The discovery assessment may include examining a property associated with a document of each selected object and notifying the operator when the examination determines that the property is unknown or unexpected.”

The patent application was filed on May 21, 2015 (14/719,224).