NTT Assigned Patent

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11977450) developed by Tsubaki, Takuma, Ishibashi, Ryota, Ono, Kotaro, Nakahara, Yuki, Kuwahara, Takeshi, Higo, Naoki, Kawakami, Kenta, and Urata, Yusuke, Tokyo, Japan, Japan, for “backup system, method therefor, and program.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Backup system and method that can determine a backup destination in consideration of disaster are provided. There are provided: a data acquisition unit 110 that acquires disaster information, network information, and node information, a replication group construction unit 130 that generates, based on the disaster information, and the like, replication group information including association information between a first node that stores original data and one or more second nodes that are candidates for backup destination of the original data, and saves the replication group information in a storage unit 120, a replication destination node calculation unit 140 that, when executing backup of the original data, calculates the second node as backup destination from the replication group, and a replication processing unit 230 that replicates and stores the original data into the storage of the second node.”

The patent application was filed on 2019-08-07 (17/423702).