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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2001
Brian Berkowitz, Seattle, WA (US);
David Golds, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael Christopher Johnson, Bothell, WA (US);
Steven E. Olsson, Camano Island, WA (US);
Catharine Van Ingen, Bellevue, WA (US);
Brian Berkowitz, Seattle, WA (US);
David Golds, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael Christopher Johnson, Bothell, WA (US);
Steven E. Olsson, Camano Island, WA (US);
Catharine Van Ingen, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Described is a system and method for allowing applications to interact with a common backup program in a uniform way. The system and method provides a communication mechanism for one or more applications to exchange information with the backup program regarding components of the applications. The information exchanged may include an identification of the components of each application. A component may be considered a group of files or resources that should be backed up or restored together. In this way, when a backup operation is initiated, each application may provide to the common backup program instructions describing the specific components to be backed up. In addition, each application may add other application-specific information useful during a restore of the backed up data.