CA Assigned Patent

CA, Inc., New York, NY, has been assigned a patent (8,977,828) developed by Wang, Zhiye, Beijing, China, for a “data recovery using conversion of backup to virtual disk .”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system includes a proxy processor configured to simulate a virtual disk, and a daemon processor in communication with the proxy processor and a backup repository. The proxy processor is configured to receive from an application a read request or a write request and to direct the read request or the write request to the daemon processor. The daemon processor is configured to receive the read request from the proxy processor and to access the backup repository or the simulated virtual disk, and to receive the write request from the proxy processor and to write data in the write request to the simulated virtual disk.“

The patent application was filed on June 21, 2012 (13/529,380).