Own Data Assigned Patent

Own Data Company Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel (acquired by Salesforce), has been assigned a patent (12282393) developed by Vered; Gadi Luc, Tenafly, NJ, for a “cloud computing sandbox backup.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for backing up environments. One of the methods includes maintaining, for a cloud computing environment, first data that indicates one or more previously active sandbox environments; determining second data that indicates one or more most recently active sandbox environments; determining, using the second data, a newly added sandbox environment; determining, using a first identifier for the newly added sandbox environment and a second identifier for a prior sandbox environment from the one or more previously active sandbox environments, whether the newly added sandbox environment is likely a refresh of the prior sandbox environment; and performing one or more actions for the newly added sandbox environment using a result of the determination whether the newly added sandbox environment is likely a refresh of the prior sandbox environment.”

The patent application was filed on 2023-04-26 (18/307501).