Patent 7707455 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on April, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Self-service recovery of application data. A list of recoverable objects for the application is generated in response to the receipt of a request for an application recovery from a user. The list of recoverable objects for the application is sent to the user. A selected recoverable object from the user is received. In response, the execution of a recovery job on the backup and restore application is initiated for the selected recoverable object.