Patent 7650356 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on January, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A restore advisor may generate and apply a recovery plan to restore a database to a specified point in time. A restore/recovery scenario may be specified; resources, and backups available may be specified and one or more optimized restore plans may be generated. One or more alternate plans may be requested. The plans may be applied, verified or saved.