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Method, system, and apparatus for providing alert synthesis in a data protection system

US7502961B2 · kind B2 · utility

11Cited by

7References

30Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

Catharine van Ingen · Shrewsbury, US
Brian T. Berkowitz · Seattle, US
Karandeep Singh Anand · Redmond, US
Manikandan Thangarathnam · Chennai, IN
Purushottam M. Kulkarni · Hyderabad, IN
William T. Shelton · Scottsville, US
Seetharaman Harikrishnan · Redmond, US
Sundararajan Srinivasan · Sunnyvale, US
Yezdi Z. Lashkari · Seattle, US

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 9, 2004
Grant date	Mar 10, 2009
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 10, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10S707/99955
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for diagnosing problems with protection of a data source and recovery of the same. The method includes diagnosing a copy of data located at the storage location and diagnosing a temporal version of the copy of data. Based on the diagnosis it is determined whether an error or a warning was detected. If either were detected a response is provided with a suggested solution.

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