Tintri by DDN Assigned Patent

Tintri by DDN, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, and University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT, has been assigned a patent (10,872,099) developed by Gharpure, Geeta, Sunnyvale, CA, Nichet, Alexandre, and Dixit, Deepika, San Jose, CA, for an “automatic data protection for virtual machines using virtual machine attributes.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An embodiment of a system for automatic data protection for virtual machines includes a processor configured to use storage attributes associated with a virtual machine to determine, for the virtual machine, a data protection priority. The processor is further configured to determine a recommendation of a data protection operation to be taken with respect to the virtual machine based at least in part on the determined data protection priority. The system further includes a memory coupled to the processor and configured to store the determined data protection priority.”

The patent application was filed on January 22, 2018 (15/877,072).