Commvault Systems Assigned Twenty-Four Patents

High availability distributed deduplicated storage
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,157,450) developed by Vijayan, Manoj Kumar, Marlboro, NJ, Kochunni, Jaidev Oppath, Santa Clara, CA, Agrawal, Saurabh, Ocean, NJ, and Narulkar, Abhishek, Ocean, NJ, for a “high availability distributed deduplicated storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A high availability distributed, deduplicated storage system according to certain embodiments is arranged to include multiple deduplication database media agents. The deduplication database media agents store signatures of data blocks stored in secondary storage. In addition, the deduplication database media agents are configured as failover deduplication database media agents in the event that one of the deduplication database media agents becomes unavailable.”

The patent application was filed on December 28, 2018 (16/234,976).

Migrating data to disk without interrupting running operations
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,157,171) developed by Kochunni, Jaidev Oppath, Santa Clara, CA, and Klose, Michael Frank, San Jose, CA, for “migrating data to disk without interrupting running operations.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods for migrating stored backup data between disks (e.g., from an existing disk to another disk, such as a new or different disk in a magnetic storage library, without interrupting or otherwise affecting secondary copy operations (e.g., operations currently writing data to the storage library) utilizing the magnetic storage library, are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods mark one or more mount paths as full when a running secondary copy operation associated with the mount path has completed a job, regardless of the actual current capacity or intended use of the mount path, and migrate each of the one or more data to a second disk of the data storage library when the mount path associated with the data is marked as full.”

The patent application was filed on April 24, 2020 (16/858,354).

Customized deployment in information management
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,150,883) developed by Kripalani, Sanjay Harakhchand, Morganville, NJ, and Kottomtharayil, Rajiv, Marlboro, NJ, for “customized deployment in information management systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “According to certain aspects, an information management system may be configured to: receive system information relating to one or more data storage requirements associated with a first user, access an electronic database containing deployment configuration rules usable in determining information management cell configurations, generate a recommended deployment configuration for an information management cell associated with the first user based at least in part on the system information and the deployment configuration rules, receive computing infrastructure information relating to computer hardware components within the information management cell that are available for use in implementing the recommended deployment configuration, and generate an installation script for the information management cell based at least in part on the recommended deployment configuration and the computing infrastructure information.”

The patent application was filed on July 19, 2019 (16/517,338).

Opportunistic execution of secondary copy operations
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,144,402) developed by Ahn, Jun H., Manalapan, NJ, Ashraf, Waqas, Ocean, NJ, Kumar, Anup, Edison, NJ, and Vallabhaneni, Brahmaiah, Marlboro, NJ, for an “opportunistic execution of secondary copy operations.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Rather than relying on pre-defined scheduling of secondary copy operations such as backup jobs, the illustrative opportunistic approach initiates secondary copy operations based on changing operational conditions in a storage management system. An adaptive backup readiness score is based on a number of backup-readiness operational factors. An illustrative enhanced data agent which is associated with the target database application, or other executable component) may monitor the operational factors and determine the backup readiness score based on weights assigned to the respective operational factors. The enhanced data agent may evaluate recent backup jobs to determine which of the operational factors that contributed to the backup readiness score may have been most relevant. Based on the most-relevant analysis, the enhanced data agent may adapt the weights assigned to the monitored operational factors, so that the backup readiness score may be more suitable and responsive to ongoing operational conditions in the system.”

The patent application was filed on October 4, 2019 (16/593,760).

Migrating components in hierarchical storage network
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,132,139) developed by Kavuri, Srinivas, San Jose, CA, and Muller, Marcus S., Maynard, MA, for “systems and methods for migrating components in a hierarchical storage network.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “System and methods for selectively or automatically migrating resources between storage operation cells are provided. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a management component within the storage operation system may monitor system operation and migrate components from storage operation cell to another to facilitate failover recovery, promote load balancing within the system and improve overall system performance as further described herein. Another aspect of the invention may involve performing certain predictive analyses on system operation to reveal trends and tendencies within the system. Such information may be used as the basis for potentially migrating components from one storage operation cell to another to improve system performance and reduce or eliminate resource exhaustion or congestion conditions.”

The patent application was filed on February 5, 2020 (16/782,492).

Skipping data backed up in prior backup operations
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,126,365) developed by Littlefield, Duncan Alden, Millstone Township, NJ, Kottomtharayil, Rajiv, Marlboro, NJ, Kumar, Kuldeep, Hyderabad, India, Bhagi, Sri Karthik, Morganville, NJ, Ahn, Jun H., Manalapan, NJ, and Gokhale, Parag, Marlboro, NJ, for “skipping data backed up in prior backup operations.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Certain embodiments described herein relate to an improved selective data backup system. In some embodiments, one or more components in an information management system can determine that a portion of the primary data scheduled for backup was previously backed up or is scheduled to be backed up as part of another backup operation. For example, a data agent performing a cluster-level backup operation for an entire cluster of storage servers may check whether any part of the primary data was previously backed up by a prior server-level backup operation for one of the storage servers in the cluster. If so, the data agent may skip, in the cluster-level backup operation, any portion of the primary data stored in the storage server previously backed up as part of the prior server-level backup operation.”

The patent application was filed on March 11, 2019 (16/298,900).

Managing deletions from deduplication database
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,119,984) developed by Attarde, Deepak Raghunath, and Vijayan, Manoj Kumar, Marlboro, NJ, for “managing deletions from a deduplication database.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An information management system can manage the removal of data block entries in a deduplicated data store using working copies of the data block entries residing in a local data store of a secondary storage computing device. The system can use the working copies to identify data blocks for removal. Once the deduplication database is updated with the changes to the working copies (e.g., using a transaction based update scheme), the system can query the deduplication database for the database entries identified for removal. Once identified, the system can remove the database entries identified for pruning and/or the corresponding deduplication data blocks from secondary storage.”

The patent application was filed on June 25, 2019 (16/452,309).

File system content archiving based on third-party application archiving rules and metadata
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,119,974) developed by Ahn, Jun H., Manalapan, NJ, Ashraf, Waqas, and Krishna Shankar, Arun Kumar, Ocean, NJ, for a “file system content archiving based on third-party application archiving rules and metadata.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An information management system according certain aspects for archiving file system content may include a third-party application archiving data agent configured to: access third-party application archiving rules for archiving data to one or more secondary storage devices, wherein the third-party application archiving rules are defined by a third-party application to archive files associated with the third-party application, access third-party metadata associated with a plurality of files in a file system, wherein the plurality of files is associated with the third-party application and the third-party metadata is defined by the third-party application, determine whether to archive one or more files of the plurality of files based at least in part on the third-party application archiving rules and the third-party metadata, and in response to determining that a first file of the plurality of files should be archived, archive the first file to the one or more secondary storage devices.”

The patent application was filed on August 11, 2017 (15/675,504).

Load balancing across multiple data paths
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,119,868) developed by Kochunni, Jaidev O., Santa Clara, CA, Liu, Chong, Ellicott City, MD, Vijayan, Manoj Kumar, and Kottomtharayil, Rajiv, Marlboro, NJ, for a “load balancing across multiple data paths.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Multiple data paths may be available to a data management system for transferring data between a primary storage device and a secondary storage device. The data management system may be able to gain operational advantages by performing load balancing across the multiple data paths. The system may use application layer characteristics of the data for transferring from a primary storage to a backup storage during data backup operation, and correspondingly from a secondary or backup storage system to a primary storage system during restoration.”

The patent application was filed on July 23, 2020 (16/936,424).

Cross-application database restore
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,119,865) developed by Vallabhaneni, Brahmaiah, Marlboro, NJ, Kumarasamy, Paramasivam, Morganville, NJ, Pawar, Rahul S., Marlboro, NJ, Dornemann, Henry Wallace, Eatontown, NJ, Ahn, Jun H., Manalapan, NJ, and Senthilnathan, Muthusamy, Holmdel, NJ, for a “cross-application database restore.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system according to certain aspects improves the process of restoring database objects and converting those objects into another database file format. According to certain aspects, a database file is backed up in a block-level fashion. Instead of restoring the entire backup file, which can consume a large amount of time and computing resources, the information management system may restore a particular database object from a backup database file that is stored as multiple blocks or other granular units. Then, the information management system can extract the desired data from the restored block(s). By using block-level mapping and storage techniques described herein, the system can restore a database object in a backup database file without restoring the entire backup database file, thereby speeding up restore operations and reducing consumption of storage and processing resources. In addition, the information management system can convert the blocks, using a staging memory, to another database file format as desired.”

The patent application was filed on December 28, 2018 (16/235,158).

Accessing file system using tiered deduplication
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,113,246) developed by Mitkar, Amit, Manalapan, NJ, Kumarasamy, Paramasivam, Morganville, NJ, and Kottomtharayil, Rajiv, Marlboro, NJ, for “accessing a file system using tiered deduplication.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An illustrative pseudo-file-system driver uses deduplication functionality and resources in a storage management system to provide an application and/or a virtual machine with access to a locally-stored file system. From the perspective of the application/virtual machine, the file system appears to be of virtually unlimited capacity. The pseudo-file-system driver instantiates the file system in primary storage, e.g., configured on a local disk. The application/virtual machine requires no configured settings or limits for the file system’s storage capacity, and may thus treat the file system as “infinite.” The pseudo-file-system driver intercepts write requests and may use the deduplication infrastructure in the storage management system to offload excess data from local primary storage to deduplicated secondary storage, based on a deduplication database. The pseudo-file-system driver also intercepts read requests and in response may restore data from deduplicated secondary storage to primary storage, also based on the deduplication database.”

The patent application was filed on October 2, 2019 (16/591,400).

User-level quota management of data objects stored in information management
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,113,154) developed by Mutha, Manas Bhikchand, Tinton Falls, NJ, Bedadala, Pavan Kumar Reddy, Piscataway, NJ, Ahn, Jun H., Manalapan, NJ, Mazur, Pavlo, Highland Park, NJ, and Sanghvi, Jatin Kirtikumar, Secunderabad, India, for a “user-level quota management of data objects stored in information management systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods are disclosed for cross-system user-level management of data objects stored in one or more information management systems, and for user-level management of data storage quotas in information management systems, including data objects in secondary storage. An illustrative quota manager is associated with one or more information management systems. The quota manager comprises a quota value representing the maximum amount of data storage allowed for a given end-user’s primary and secondary data in the one or more information management systems. The quota manager determines whether data associated with the end-user has exceeded the storage quota, and if so, prompts the end-user to select data for deletion, the deletion to be implemented globally, across the primary and secondary storage subsystems of the respective one or more information management systems. Meanwhile, so long as the quota is exceeded, the quota manager instructs storage managers to block backups of end-user’s data.”

The patent application was filed on September 29, 2017 (15/721,080).

Client policy assignment in storage
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,108,864) developed by Karandikar, Amey Vijaykumar, Long Branch, NJ, for “system and method for client policy assignment in a data storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system and method for property assignment in a data storage system is presented. A data storage system defines a client configuration profile comprising a set of storage operation properties, wherein the storage operation properties regulate criteria for performing storage operations by the data agent on client devices that are associated with the client configuration profile. A storage management system associates a first client device to the client configuration profile, and communicates the set of properties of the client configuration profile to property tables of corresponding objects in the first client device.”

The patent application was filed on July 7, 2020 (16/922,817).

Managing multiple information management cells
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,108,861) developed by Singh, Parminder, Iselin, NJ, Trivedi, Divya, Tinton Falls, NJ, Vibhor, Anand, Manalapan, NJ, and Ramalingam, Niresh, Tinton Falls, NJ, for a “system for managing multiple information management cells .“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A disclosure for management of multiple information management cells running different versions of software applications using a gateway system is provided herein. The disclosure addresses the drawbacks associated with the current environment of managing multiple information management cells through a separate URL by centralizing the user interfaces (UI) to a single front-end administrative UI that is specific to the version of software application operating on that cell. The gateway system comprises a mapping module, a storage module, a UI module, and a communication module that interoperate to retrieve the version of a software application operating on the targeted cell, the UI running that version of software application, and presenting a user interface that can view and manage the operations of that targeted cell. The gateway system serves the UI specific for the version of software application for that cell from its local collection.”

The patent application was filed on August 26, 2020 (17/003,755).

Archiving mail servers via SMTP server
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,108,858) developed by Wang, Sunghyun, Holmdel, NJ, Mutha, Manas Bhikchand, Tinton Falls, NJ, and Ahn, Jun H., Manalapan, NJ, for “archiving mail servers via a simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP) server.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods for providing data storage operations, such as archiving and/or backing up of data, for mail servers, such as Exchange servers, via a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) interface are described. For example, the systems and methods may provide an SMTP server between one or more Exchange servers and a media agent, which is configured to performing secondary copy operations, in order to quickly and/or efficiently generate archive or other secondary copies of various mailboxes within the mail server before or during the transfer of mail data to the media agent for data storage operations.”

The patent application was filed on March 27, 2018 (15/937,769).

Dynamically configuring proxy server using containerization for concurrent and/or overlapping backup, restore, and/or test operations
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,106,632) developed by Bangalore, Prashanth Nagabhushana, Marlboro, NJ, Basak, Diptiman, Manalapan, NJ, Ramohalli Gopala Rao, Girish, Eatontown, NJ, Vullupala, Shankar Reddy, Marlboro, NJ, and Vupputuri, Saamaja, Old Bridge, NJ, for “dynamically configuring a proxy server using containerization for concurrent and/or overlapping backup, restore, and/or test operations.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An illustrative data storage management system relies on a specially configured proxy server to operate software containers on a proxy server, maintain resources needed by the software containers, and interwork with other system components. Illustratively, a catalog service on the proxy server maintains a software cache according to maintenance rules and also maintains an associated cache catalog. The software containers are generally managed and operated by an illustrative container manager also hosted by the proxy server. The illustrative software cache comprises contents needed by the software containers, such as pre-configured container templates, DBMS software components, lightervisors representing target operating systems, and storage management software for performing test and storage operations. The maintenance rules govern when cache contents should be purged and moved into offline archive copies.”

The patent application was filed on November 16, 2016 (15/353,686).

Automated log-based remediation of information management
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,100,064) developed by Dwarampudi, Bheemesh R., Morganville, NJ, Cunningham, David M., South River, NJ, and Navaneethan, Dinesh Babu, Tinton Falls, NJ, for an “automated log-based remediation of an information management system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and processes disclosed herein perform an automatic remediation process. The automatic remediation process may be a log-based remediation process. Systems disclosed herein may obtain log files from an information management system and determine the occurrence of errors at the information management system based on error codes included in the logs. Further, the systems may access a knowledgebase to determine whether solutions for the errors have been previously generated. The solutions may include patches or hotfixes that can be applied to the information management system without removing user-access or stopping execution of the information management system. The systems may automatically update the information management system to address the errors. Alternatively, or in addition, the systems may alert a user, such as an administrator, of the existence of a solution to the error, and whether the solution may be applied without interrupting service or access to the information management system.”

The patent application was filed on April 30, 2019 (16/398,729).

Volume-level replication of data via snapshots and using volume-replicating server in information management
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,100,043) developed by Kumarasamy, Paramasivam, Morganville, NJ, and Chedalavada, Durga Prasad, Dummugudem Mandal, India, for a “volume-level replication of data via snapshots and using a volume-replicating server in an information management system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The illustrative systems and methods use a special-purpose volume-replicating server(s) to offload client computing devices operating in a production environment. The production environment may remain relatively undisturbed while production data is replicated to a geographically distinct destination. Replication is based in part on hardware-based snapshots generated by a storage array that houses production data. The illustrative volume-replicating server efficiently moves data from snapshots on a source storage array to a destination storage array by transferring only changed blocks for each successive snapshot, i.e., transferring incremental block-level changes. Periodic restore jobs may be executed by destination clients to keep current with their corresponding source production clients. Accordingly, after the source data center goes offline, production data may be speedily restored at the destination data center after experiencing only minimal downtime of production resources. By employing block-level techniques, the disclosed solutions avoid the file-based data management approaches of the prior art, which tend to be too time-consuming and resource-intensive for the present scenario.”

The patent application was filed on June 15, 2018 (16/009,918).

Snapshot-based disaster recovery orchestration of virtual machine failover and failback operations
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,099,956) developed by Polimera, Rajesh, Freehold, NJ, Joseph, Sarath Cheriyan, Kumar, Kuldeep, Ramgiri, Venkata Chalapathi Sucheth, Eatontown, NJ, Sancheti, Ashwin Gautamchand, Marlboro, NJ, Mani, Madhumitha, Campbell, CA, and Dornemann, Henry Wallace, Eatontown, NJ, for “snapshot-based disaster recovery orchestration of virtual machine failover and failback operations.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Snapshot-based disaster recovery (DR) orchestration systems and methods for virtual machine (VM) failover and failback do not require that VMs or their corresponding datastores be actively operating at the DR site before a DR orchestration job is initiated, i.e., before failover. An illustrative data storage management system deploys proprietary components at source data center(s) and at DR site(s). The proprietary components (e.g., storage manager, data agents, media agents, backup nodes, etc.) interoperate with each other and with the source and DR components to ensure that VMs will successfully failover and/or failback. DR orchestration jobs are suitable for testing VM failover scenarios, “clone testing”, for conducting planned VM failovers, and for unplanned VM failovers. DR orchestration jobs also handle failback and integration of DR-generated data into the failback site, including restoring VMs that never failed over to fully re-populate the source/failback site.”

The patent application was filed on March 26, 2020 (16/831,562).

Storing metadata at cloud-based data recovery center for disaster recovery testing and recovery of backup data stored remotely from cloud-based data recovery center
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,099,944) developed by Gokhale, Parag, Marlboro, NJ, and Kripalani, Sanjay Harakhchand, Morganville, NJ, for “storing metadata at a cloud-based data recovery center for disaster recovery testing and recovery of backup data stored remotely from the cloud-based data recovery center.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A Remote Metadata Center provides Disaster Recovery (DR) testing and metadata backup services to multiple business organizations. Metadata associated with local data backups performed at business organizations is transmitted to the Remote Metadata Center. Corresponding backup data is stored in a data storage system that is either stored locally at the business organization or at a data storage facility that is at a different location than the Remote Metadata Center and the business organization. DR testing can be staged from the Remote Data Center using the metadata received and optionally with assistance from an operator at the business organization and/or the data storage facility.”

The patent application was filed on June 17, 2019 (16/443,781).

Indexing backup data generated in backup operations
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,099,943) developed by Gokhale, Parag, Marlboro, NJ, Varadharajan, Prakash, Morganville, NJ, and Mazur, Pavlo, Tinton Falls, NJ, for “indexing backup data generated in backup operations.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “In certain embodiments, a tiered storage system is disclosed that provides for failover protection during data backup operations. The system can provide for an index, or catalog, for identifying and enabling restoration of backup data located on a storage device. The system further maintains a set of transaction logs generated by media agent modules that identify metadata with respect to individual data chunks of a backup file on the storage device. A copy of the catalog and transaction logs can be stored at a location accessible by each of the media agent modules. In this manner, in case of a failure of one media agent module during backup, the transaction logs and existing catalog can be used by a second media agent module to resume the backup operation without requiring a restart of the backup process.”

The patent application was filed on March 8, 2019 (16/297,457).

Archiving virtual machines in storage
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,099,886) developed by Deshpande, Sumer Dilip, Ocean, NJ, Dornemann, Henry Wallace, Eatontown, NJ, Venkatesha, Ananda, Cupertino, CA, and Sancheti, Ashwin Gautamchand, Marlboro, NJ, for “archiving virtual machines in a data storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The data storage system according to certain aspects can manage the archiving of virtual machines to (and restoring of virtual machines from) secondary storage. The system can determine whether to archive virtual machines based on usage data or information. The usage information may include storage usage, CPU usage, memory usage, network usage, events defined by a virtual machine software or application, etc. The system may archive virtual machines that are determined to have a low level of utilization. For example, a virtual machine can be archived when its usage level falls below a threshold level. The system may create a virtual machine placeholder for an archived virtual machine, which may be a ‘light’ or minimal version of the virtual machine that acts as if it is the actual virtual machine. By using a virtual machine placeholder, a virtual machine may appear to be active and selectable by the user.”

The patent application was filed on September 23, 2020 (17/030,127).

Browsing data stored in backup format
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,093,336) developed by Vijayan, Manoj Kumar, Marlboro, NJ, for “browsing data stored in a backup format.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The disclosed techniques enable browsing of data items that are stored in a backup storage system in a backup format. A search query from a user is received where the search query is for a data item stored in a data storage system, such as a tape drive, a disk array, or a cloud-based storage system. The system may use an index to look up a data format of the data item. To present the data to the user, the system may perform a restoration operation using two or more staging operations to convert the data format to a format that can be presented to the user.”

The patent application was filed on September 30, 2019 (16/588,933).

Distributed framework for data proximity-based task splitting in content indexing system
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,086,834) developed by Kumar, Sanath, Bengaluru, India, Bhagi, Sri Karthik, Morganville, NJ, Gokhale, Parag, Pawar, Rahul S., Marlboro, NJ, Duraisamy, Arun Prabu, Hyderabad, India, Pradhan, Manoj Kumar, Edison, NJ, Zakharkin, Dmitriy Borisovich, Monmouth Junction, NJ, Sinha, Prosenjit, Manalapan, NJ, Pawale, Vipul, Ocean, NJ, Inavolu, Jaya Rama Raju, Eatontown, NJ, Mutha, Manas Bhikchand, Tinton Falls, NJ, and Singh, Pushpendra, Edison, NJ, for a “distributed framework for data proximity-based task splitting in a content indexing system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An improved content indexing (CI) system is disclosed herein. For example, the improved CI system may include a distributed architecture of client computing devices, media agents, a single backup and CI database, and a pool of servers. After a file backup occurs, the backup and CI database may include file metadata indices and other information associated with backed up files. Servers in the pool of servers may, in parallel, query the backup and CI database for a list of files assigned to the respective server that have not been content indexed. The servers may then request a media agent to restore the assigned files from secondary storage and provide the restored files to the servers. The servers may then content index the received restored files. Once the content indexing is complete, the servers can send the content index information to the backup and CI database for storage.”

The patent application was filed on September 13, 2018 (16/130,823).