Acronis Assigned Four Patents

Backup of user data with validity check
Acronis International GbmH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,044,801) developed by Tyurumov, Alexey, Protassov, Stanislav S., Moscow, Russia, Beloussov, Serguei M., Singapore, Singapore, and Shmulevich, Mark, Moscow, Russia, for a “backup of user data with validity check.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A data backup application checks validity of data being backed up during an incremental or a full backup. In case of the file backup, the full backup checks the validity of data during the backup, because in case of data corruption the user will not have any original data since no data has been backed up yet. In case of the incremental backup, only the new files or the files that have changed compared to the last backup are now backed up. All new and modified files can be checked for validity by comparing internal format of the user files against a corresponding file format standard. If corrupted files are detected among the modified files, the user is notified.”

The patent application was filed on November 23, 2015 (14/948,868).

Replication of disk sectors of target machine
Acronis International GbmH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,002,052) developed by Lyadvinsky, Maxim V., Moscow, Russia, Manukyan, Emil, Yerevan, AM, Beloussov, Serguei M., Costa Del Sol, Singapore, and Dragnev, Andrey, Moscow, Russia, for “systems, methods, and computer products for replication of disk sectors of a target machine.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method, computer program product, computing system, and system for machine replication are described. The method may include creating a crash-consistent replica of a source machine by replicating sectors from a source drive on the source machine to a target drive on a target machine wherein the sectors on the target drive have the same offset as the sectors on the source drive. The method may further include, in response to determining that a sector replicated from the source drive to the target drive has changed on the source drive, replicating the sector that changed on the source drive to the target drive on the target machine out-of-order. The method may also include creating an application-consistent replica version of the source machine by creating a snapshot of the source machine and replicating sectors from the snapshot to the target drive on the target machine.”

The patent application was filed on June 30, 2014 (14/320,540).

Agentless backup of virtual machines
Acronis International GbmH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (9,996,425) developed by Shulga, Victor, Semyonov, Vasily, Protasov, Stanislav, Shumlevich, Mark, Moscow, Russia, and Beloussov, Serguei, Singapore, Singapore, for a “system and method for agentless backup of virtual machines.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system and method is disclosed for performing agentless backup of a virtual machine using a temporary attached virtual disk. An example method includes creating a virtual machine disk in a datastore, loading a software application in the virtual machine disk, the software application being configured to collect metadata relating to at least one application executing in an operating system of the virtual machine, communicatively coupling the datastore to the virtual machine, collecting the metadata relating to the at least one application executing in the operating system of the virtual machine, generating a snapshot of the virtual machine, and storing a backup of the virtual machine in a backup archive based on the snapshot.”

The patent application was filed on April 18, 2016 (15/131,872).

Data storage system performance management
Acronis International GbmH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (9,990,252) developed by Morlang, Alexey, Moscow Region, Russia, Andreev, Alexey, Moscow, Russia, Neporada, Andrey, Moscow Region, Russia, and Beloussov, Serguei, Costa Del Sol, Singapore, for a “data storage system performance management.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “In part, the disclosure relates to a computer-implemented system for managing a data storage system comprising a plurality of data storage nodes. The system includes at least one processor and an operatively associated storage device. The at least one processor is programmed to: monitor utilization of at least one data object stored at the data storage system as a coded data object comprising a first total number of data blocks, wherein each of the first number of data blocks is stored at a separate data storage node, and wherein an original data object is re-creatable from a first base number of data blocks selected from the first total number of data blocks, determine that the utilization of the at least one data object has changed, and modify a number of the plurality of data storage nodes that store data blocks of the coded data object.”

The patent application was filed on December 4, 2015 (14/959,474).