NortonLifeLock Assigned Patent

NortonLifeLock Inc., Tempe, AZ, has been assigned a patent (11,113,152) developed by Jha, Mohit, Culver City, CA, Raj, Vinith, Los Angeles, CA, Kuo, Chengi Jimmy, Manhattan Beach, CA, and Banerjee, Amitrajit, Marina Del Rey, CA, for “systems and methods for managing file backup .“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A computer-implemented method for managing file backup may include (i) detecting, by a computing device, an attempt to upload a file to a backup storage, (ii) calculating a degree of difference between the file and a previous version of the file on the backup storage, (iii) comparing, by the computing device, a list of applications that have written to the file with a list of acceptable applications for the file, (iv) calculating, based on the degree of difference and the comparison of the list of applications, a change score for the file, and (v) applying, based on the change score, a backup policy to the attempt to upload the file. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.”

The patent application was filed on June 19, 2017 (15/626,202).