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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2009

Filed:

Sep. 09, 2004
Applicants:

Catharine Van Ingen, Bellevue, WA (US);

Brian T Berkowitz, Seattle, WA (US);

Karandeep Singh Anand, New Delhi, IN;

Manikandan Thangarathnam, Hyderabad, IN;

Purushottam M Kulkarni, Bellevue, WA (US);

William T Shelton, Jr., Seattle, WA (US);

Seetharaman Harikrishnan, Redmond, WA (US);

Sundararajan Srinivasan, Hyderabad, IN;

Yezdi Z Lashkari, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Catharine van Ingen, Bellevue, WA (US);

Brian T Berkowitz, Seattle, WA (US);

Karandeep Singh Anand, New Delhi, IN;

Manikandan Thangarathnam, Hyderabad, IN;

Purushottam M Kulkarni, Bellevue, WA (US);

William T Shelton, Jr., Seattle, WA (US);

Seetharaman Harikrishnan, Redmond, WA (US);

Sundararajan Srinivasan, Hyderabad, IN;

Yezdi Z Lashkari, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method for diagnosing problems with protection of a data source and recovery of the same. The method includes diagnosing a copy of data located at the storage location and diagnosing a temporal version of the copy of data. Based on the diagnosis it is determined whether an error or a warning was detected. If either were detected a response is provided with a suggested solution.


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