Commvault Assigned Eleven Patents

Migrating components in hierarchical storage network
Commvault Systems, Inc, Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (10,133,507) developed by Kavuri, Srinivas, San Jose, CA, and Muller, Marcus S., Maynard, MA, for “systems and methods for migrating components in a hierarchical storage network.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “System and methods for selectively or automatically migrating resources between storage operation cells are provided. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a management component within the storage operation system may monitor system operation and migrate components from storage operation cell to another to facilitate failover recovery, promote load balancing within the system and improve overall system performance as further described herein. Another aspect of the invention may involve performing certain predictive analyses on system operation to reveal trends and tendencies within the system. Such information may be used as the basis for potentially migrating components from one storage operation cell to another to improve system performance and reduce or eliminate resource exhaustion or congestion conditions.”

The patent application was filed on January 29, 2018 (15/882,833).

Data management improvements
Commvault Systems, Inc, Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (10,127,070) developed by Dwarampudi, Bheemesh R., Jackson, NJ, Kottomtharayil, Rajiv, Pawar, Rahul S., and, Gokhale, Parag, Marlboro, NJ, for an “efficient data management improvements, such as docking limited-feature data management modules to a full-featured data management system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Software, firmware, and systems are described herein that permit an organization to dock previously-utilized, limited-feature data management modules with a full-featured data management system. By docking limited-feature data management modules to a full-featured data management system, metadata and data from the various limited-feature data management modules can be integrated and utilized more efficiently and effectively. Moreover, additional data management features can be provided to users after a more seamless transition.”

The patent application was filed on December 19, 2016 (15/383,956).

Synchronizing selected portions of data in storage management system
Commvault Systems, Inc, Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (10,126,977) developed by Sinha, Prosenjit, Manalapan, NJ, for a “synchronizing selected portions of data in a storage management system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Disclosed methods and systems leverage resources in a storage management system to partially synchronize primary data files based on synchronizing selected portions thereof without regard to changes that may be occurring in other non-synchronized portions. Accordingly, a number of primary data files may be partially synchronized by synchronizing designated portions thereof via auto-restore operations from backup data. This approach relies on storage management resources to designate portions of source data that is to be kept synchronized across any number of targets, detect changes to the designated portions, back up changes to secondary storage, and distribute the changes from secondary storage to the associated targets, with minimal impact to the primary data environment. The approach may be mutually applied, so that changes in any one of an associated group of source data files may be likewise detected, backed up, and distributed to the other members of the group.”

The patent application was filed on February 9, 2018 (15/893,281).

Retaining and using data block signatures in data protection operations
Commvault Systems, Inc, Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (10,126,973) developed by Vijayan, Manoj Kumar, and Attarde, Deepak Raghunath, Marlboro, NJ, for “systems and methods for retaining and using data block signatures in data protection operations.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system according to certain embodiments associates a signature value corresponding to a data block with one or more data blocks and a reference to the data block to form a signature/data word corresponding to the data block. The system further logically organizes the signature/data words into a plurality of files each comprising at least one signature/data word such that the signature values are embedded in the respective file. The system according to certain embodiments reads a previously stored signature value corresponding to a respective data block for sending from a backup storage system having at least one memory device to a secondary storage system. Based on an indication as to whether the data block is already stored on the secondary storage system, the system reads the data block from the at least one memory device for sending to the secondary storage system if the data block does not exist on the secondary storage system, wherein the signature value and not the data block is read from the at least one memory device if the data block exists on the secondary storage system.”

The patent application was filed on March 29, 2017 (15/472,737).

Shared library in data storage system
Commvault Systems, Inc, Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (10,126,949) developed by Vijayan, Manoj Kumar, Kottomtharayil, Rajiv, Marlboro, NJ, and Kochunni, Jaidev Oppath, Eatontown, NJ, for a “shared library in a data storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The library server according to certain aspects can manage the use of tape drives according to the data requirements of different storage operation cells. The library server according to certain aspects can also facilitate automatic management of tape media in a tape library by allocating the tapes and slots to different cells. For instance, the library server can manage the positioning and placement of the tapes into appropriate slots within the tape library.”

The patent application was filed on August 21, 2017 (15/682,245).

Database protection using block-level mapping
Commvault Systems, Inc, Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (10,108,687) developed by Dornemann, Henry Wallace, Eatontown, NJ, Pawar, Rahul S., Marlboro, NJ, and Ahn, Jun H., Manalapan, NJ, for a “database protection using block-level mapping.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “ A system according to certain aspects may include a client computing device including: a database application configured to output a database file in a primary storage device(s), the database application outputting the database file as a series of application-level blocks, and a data agent configured to divide the database file into a plurality of first blocks having a first granularity larger than a second granularity of the application-level blocks such that each of the first blocks spans a plurality of the application-level blocks. The system may include a secondary storage controller computer(s) configured to: in response to instructions to create a secondary copy of the database file: copy the plurality of first blocks to a secondary storage device(s) to create a secondary copy of the database file, and create a table that provides a mapping between the copied plurality of first blocks and corresponding locations on the secondary storage device(s).”

The patent application was filed on May 15, 2015 (14/714,070).

Process block-level backup for selective file restoration for virtual machines
Commvault Systems, Inc, Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (10,108,652) developed by Kumarasamy, Paramasivam, Morganville, NJ, Pawar, Rahul S., Marlboro, NJ, Mitkar, Amit, Neptune, NJ, and Kilaru, Satish Chandra, Manalapan, NJ, for “systems and methods to process block-level backup for selective file restoration for virtual machines.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A data storage system protects virtual machines using block-level backup operations and restores the data at a file level. The system accesses the virtual machine file information from the file allocation table of the host system underlying the virtualization layer. A file index associates this virtual machine file information with the related protected blocks in a secondary storage device during the block-level backup. Using the file index, the system can identify the specific blocks in the secondary storage device associated with a selected restore file. As a result, file level granularity for restore operations is possible for virtual machine data protected by block-level backup operations without restoring more than the selected file blocks from the block-level backup data.”

The patent application was filed on June 29, 2016 (15/197,297).

Search filtered file system using secondary storage
Commvault Systems, Inc, Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (10,108,621) developed by Kumarasamy, Paramasivam, Morganville, NJ, Varadharajan, Prakash, Manalapan, NJ, Attarde, Deepak Raghunath, Marlboro, NJ, Bedadala, Pavan Kumar Reddy, Piscataway, NJ, and Kilaru, Satish Chandra, Manalapan, NJ, for a “search filtered file system using secondary storage, including multi-dimensional indexing and searching of archived files.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Techniques for enabling user search of content stored in a file archive include providing a search interface comprising a search rules portion and an action rules portion, receiving a file archive search criterion comprising at least one search rule, and searching the file archive using the search criterion. The techniques also include generating a set of files filtered using the search criterion and performing an action specified in the action rules portion on a file included in the set of files.”

The patent application was filed on August 24, 2017 (15/685,479).

Migrating data to disk without interrupting running backup operations
Commvault Systems, Inc, Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (10,101,913) developed by Kochunni, Jaidev O., Eatontown, NJ, and Klose, Michael F., San Jose, CA, for a “migrating data to disk without interrupting running backup operations.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods for migrating stored backup data between magnetic disks, (e.g., from an existing magnetic disk to another disk), such as a new or different magnetic disk in a magnetic storage library, without interrupting or otherwise affecting secondary copy operations, (e.g., operations currently writing data to the storage library) utilizing the magnetic storage library, are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods mark one or more mount paths as full when a running secondary copy operation associated with the mount path has completed a job, regardless of the actual current capacity or intended use of the mount path, and migrate each of the one or more data volumes to a second magnetic disk of the magnetic library when the mount path associated with the data volume is marked as full.”

The patent application was filed on September 2, 2015 (14/843,075).

Monitoring and copying multimedia messages to storage locations in compliance with policy
Commvault Systems, Inc, Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (10,091,146) developed by Pamidiparthi, Sandeep Naidu, District Nizamabad, India, for “system and method for monitoring and copying multimedia messages to storage locations in compliance with a policy.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present inventions relate systems and methods for monitoring and managing electronic messages in one or more computer networks. More particularly, the systems and methods of the present invention provide a substantially global or unified approach to messaging management within one or more computer networks that allows network administrators or other authorized users to define and identify electronic messages of interest within the network and store selected messages such that they can be retrieved and examined in connection with an audit or other inquiry.”

The patent application was filed on September 24, 2015 (14/863,866).

Predicting scale of data migration between production and archive storage systems
Commvault Systems, Inc, Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (10,089,337) developed by Senthilnathan, Muthusamy, Holmdel, NJ, Thati, Ravi, Eatontown, NJ, Kumarasamy, Paramasivam, Morganville, NJ, and Mishra, Hemant, Englishtown, NJ, for a “predicting scale of data migration between production and archive storage systems, such as for enterprise customers having large and/or numerous files.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “This application discloses a system for presenting data to a user based on requests to move data from primary storage to secondary storage. The system receives a request to move data that satisfies at least one criterion, from primary to secondary data storage. The system then identifies an initial database query from the request, and further builds a nested database query from the initial database query according to a database schema. Next, the system estimates a size of a result of executing the nested database query. Finally, the system provides for display to the user the estimated size.”

The patent application was filed on July 28, 2015 (14/810,546).