Veeam Software Assigned Patent

Veeam Software AG, Baar, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (12321238) developed by Gostev; Anton, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, for a “user authorization for file level restoration from image level backups.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Embodiments provide systems, methods, and computer program products for enabling user authorization to perform a file level recovery from an image level backup of a virtual machine without the need for access control by an administrator. Specifically, embodiments enable an access control mechanism for controlling access to stored image level backups of a virtual machine. In an embodiment, the virtual machine includes a backup application user interface that can be used to send a restoration request to a backup server. The restoration request can include a machine identifier and a user identifier of the user logged onto the virtual machine. The backup server includes a backup application that determines whether or not the machine identifier contained in the restoration request can be matched to a machine identifier of a virtual machine present in one of the virtual machine backups stored on the backup server.”

The patent application was filed on 2023-11-07 (18/387727).