System and method for overprotection mitigation

US11086556B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• EMC IP Holding Company LLC · US

Inventors

• Asif Khan · Bengaluru, IN
• Amith Ramachandran · Kanchinakote, IN
• Amarendra Behera · Bengaluru, IN
• Deepika Nagabushanam · Bengaluru, IN
• Ashish Kumar · Lewisville, US
• Pati Mohan · Bengaluru, IN
• Tushar Dethe · Bengaluru, IN
• Himanshu Arora · Champaign, US
• Gururaj Soma · Kanchinakote, IN
• Sapna Chauhan · Kanchinakote, IN
• Soumen Acharya · Kanchinakote, IN
• Reshmee Jawed · Jamshedpur, IN
• Shelesh Chopra · Kanchinakote, IN
• Yasemin Ugur-Ozekinci · Oakville, CA
• Navneet Upadhyay · Ghaziabad, IN
• Shraddha Chunekar · Indore, IN
• Deepak Anantha Bellare Mallya · Bengaluru, IN
• Arun Chakravarthy · Bengaluru, IN
• Kanagasabapathy Venkatachalam · Bengaluru, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 1, 2019
• Grant date: Aug 10, 2021
• Expiry date: Jan 1, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F16/125
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A backup storage for managing backups of clients includes persistent storage and a backup analyzer. The persistent storage includes the backups, protection policies, and an early deletion schedule. The backup analyzer obtains a request to analyze a protection policy of the protection policies; in response to obtaining the request: obtains backup data information associated with the protection policy; makes a determination, based on the backup data information and the protection policy, that a portion of the backups associated with the protection policies overprotect a client of the clients associated with the protection policy; and modifies the early deletion schedule based on the determination to obtain a modified early deletion schedule.