ProfitBricks Assigned Patent

ProfitBricks, Inc., Cambridge, MA, has been assigned a patent (9,454,314) developed by Wood, Conrad N., and Weiss, Achim, Berlin, Germany, for a “systems and methods for creating an image of a virtual storage device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A cloud storage system is described. The system includes at least one virtual server comprising at least one virtual storage device, at least one physical machine which includes at least one physical storage device having a data structure stored thereon. The data structure includes a first table of contents associated with a first virtual storage device, and a second table of contents associated with a second virtual storage device. The second virtual storage device is a copied snapshot of the first virtual storage device. The second table of contents is configured to map storage locations within the virtual storage device to node structures that provide pointers to corresponding storage locations with the physical storage device. At least some of the node structures and storage locations are shared by the first and second tables of contents.“

The patent application was filed on March 7, 2014 (14/200,751).