Backup management of software environments in a distributed network environment

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PATENT NO 9652480
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14045975

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Backup management of software environments in a distributed network environment includes: Creating a platform specific software environment according to a predefined software environment definition by a user in the network environment; automatically creating a generalized backup of the software environment by extracting platform independent data contents and platform specific transformation rules; automatically calculating enhanced meta data describing the generalized backup; assigning the enhanced metadata with the predefined software environment definition; registering the generalized backup with the enhanced metadata in a backup storage accessible by a plurality of distributed users connected via said network environment, creating a software environment according to a predefined software environment definition by automatically checking the backup storage for an available generalized backup by means of the predefined software environment definition.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Gnech, Thomas H Boeblingen, DE 35 145
Koenig, Steffen Boeblingen, DE 33 231
Petrik, Oliver Boeblingen, DE 22 272
Wagner, Petra Boeblingen, DE 26 110

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