Druva Assigned Patent

Druva Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,996,467) developed by Apte, Anand, Puthuparackat, Faisal, Pune, India, Singh, Jaspreet, Santa Clara, CA, Borate, Milind, and Deshkar, Shekhar S., Pune, India, for a “distributed scalable deduplicated data backup system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A distributed, cloud-based storage system provides a reliable, deduplicated, scalable and high performance backup service to heterogeneous clients that connect to it via a communications network. The distributed cloud-based storage system guarantees consistent and reliable data storage while using structured storage that lacks ACID compliance. Consistency and reliability are guaranteed using a system that includes: 1) back references from shared objects to referring objects, 2) safe orders of operation for object deletion and creation, 3) and simultaneous access to shared resources through sub-resources.“

The patent application was filed on December 29, 2011 (13/340,441).