SAP Assigned Patent

SAP SE, Walldorf, Germany, has been assigned a patent (12045490) developed by Gelle; Sreenivasulu, San Ramon, CA, and Ocher; Alexander, San Jose, CA, for “transferring data to backup data repositories.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for managing data storage devices. In some embodiments, a server receives a request to store data in a first storage device. The server determines the storage space remaining in the first data storage device based on historical data associated with the first data storage device. The server further determines that the first data storage device will exceed its storage capacity based on a size of the data and the storage space remaining in the first data storage device. The server transfers a set of data stored in the first data storage device to a second storage device. Transferring the set of data causes the storage space remaining in the first storage device to be greater than or equal to the size of the data. The server stores the data in the first data storage device.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-07-21 (17/382010).