US 2021/0334169 A1 · VENDOR-NEUTRAL MODELS OF VENDORS' APPLICATION RESOURCES

Abstract

Vendor-neutral models of vendors' application resources are described. A host outputs capabilities of data protection operations which are specified by a vendor of an application that is installed on the host. The host inputs a vendor-neutral version of a data protection operation, based on any of the capabilities, for a resource of the application. The host uses a vendor-neutral model of the resource of the application to perform the vendor-neutral version of the data protection operation on the application resource.

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Dependent claims

A system for vendor-neutral models of vendors' application resources, comprising:

one or more processors;
and
a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a plurality of instructions, which when executed, cause the one or more processors to:
output, by a host, capabilities of data protection operations which are specified by a vendor of an application that is installed on the host;
and
perform, by the host, a vendor-neutral version of one of the data protection operations, based on any of the capabilities, on a resource of the application by using a vendor-neutral model of the resource of the application, in response to inputting the vendor-neutral version of the one of the data protection operations for the resource of the application.

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A computer-implemented method for vendor-neutral models of vendors' application resources, the computer-implemented method comprising:

outputting, by a host, capabilities of data protection operations which are specified by a vendor of an application that is installed on the host;
and
performing, by the host, a vendor-neutral version of one of the data protection operations, based on any of the capabilities, on a resource of the application by using a vendor-neutral model of the resource of the application, in response to inputting the vendor-neutral version of the one of the data protection operations for the resource of the application.

A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium having a computer-readable program code embodied therein to be executed by one or more processors, the program code including instructions to:

output, by a host, capabilities of data protection operations which are specified by a vendor of an application that is installed on the host;
and
perform, by the host, a vendor-neutral version of one of the data protection operations, based on any of the capabilities, on a resource of the application by using a vendor-neutral model of the resource of the application, in response to inputting the vendor-neutral version of the one of the data protection operations for the resource of the application.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/824,979Filed 20 Mar 2020

Published

28 Oct 2021

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G06F 11/1464
Management of the backup or restore process: for networked environments
G06F 11/1469
Management of the backup or restore process: backup restoration techniques
G06F 11/1484
Using middleware or operating system [OS] functionalities: involving virtual machines
G06F 16/116
File system administration, e.g. details of archiving or snapshots: details of conversion of file system types or formats

Vendor-neutral models of vendors' application resources

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Abstract

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