Patents by Inventor Suryanarayanan Rangarajan

Suryanarayanan Rangarajan has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and method for automatic configuration of networked information technology assets for a backup, recovery and archiving application
    Patent number: 8600941
    Abstract: The invention is a system and method for detecting and configuring network resources for a backup and recovery application. The invention identifies data, software and hardware accessed through a network for the backup and recovery application. Additionally, the present invention identifies dependencies and relationships between the data, hardware and software. The invention thereby provides an updated overview of the entire network environment to the backup and recovery application. Using the invention, the backup and recovery application may backup data and the software that uses the data, as well as the configuration for the hardware that stores or accesses the data. During recovery, the invention will restore the data, hardware and software in the proper sequence and configuration. The present invention thereby enables proper recovery to any selected point in time, and ensures that after recovery, network resources function as they did at that selected point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Anand Raj, Suryanarayanan Rangarajan