Pivotal Software Assigned Patent

Pivotal Software, Inc., (acquired by VMware, Inc.), San Francisco, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,802,920) developed by Stowell, Therese Louise, Naik, Jatin, Lyu, Chunyi, Capizzi, Giuseppe, Cook, Edward Eliot, and Bloxsom, Rosemary, London, Great Britain, for “backup and restore validation.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a request to generate a backup of a distributed computing system, generating, by each of the plurality of components of the distributed computing system, one or more backup artifacts, generating, by each of the plurality of components of the distributed computing system, verification data, the verification data being metadata about the contents of the generated backup artifacts, obtaining a second request to validate the backup, provisioning a restore environment, processing the plurality of backup artifacts to restore the plurality of components in the provisioned restore environment, performing a verification process using respective verification data for the restored component, wherein each verification process determines whether contents of the restored component matches the respective verification data for the restored component, and outputting a result of the verification process.”

The patent application was filed on April 18, 2018 (15/956,538).