Acronis Assigned Patent

Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (8,996,830) developed by Goldobin, Maxim V., Lyadvinsky, Maxim V., Moscow, Russia, Beloussov, Serguei M., Singapore, Tormasov, Alexander G., Per, and Yuri S., Moscow, Russia, for a “system and method for efficient backup using hashes .”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for efficient backup using hashes One of the methods includes forming an image of a storage device, wherein contents of blocks of the storage device are restorable from the contents of blocks of the image. The method includes generating a first plurality of hash values, each hash value generated from contents of a block of the image. The method includes selecting a block of the storage device. The method includes generating a hash value from the contents of the selected block. The method includes determining whether the hash value occurs in the plurality of hash values. The method also includes generating an entry in the image in response to the determination.“

The patent application was filed on June 14, 2013 (13/917,950).