Veritas Assigned Patent

Veritas US IP Holdings LLC, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,298,707) developed by Zhang, Xianbo, Madison, WI, and Hartnett, Thomas D., Saint Paul, MN, for a “efficient data storage and retrieval for backup systems.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Systems and methods for providing efficient storage and retrieval of data are disclosed. A two-level segment labeling mechanism may be employed to ensure that unique data segments from particular backup data sets are stored together in a storage container. The two-level segment labeling may facilitate preservation of the relative positions of segments within the backup stream during compaction operations. Also, backup data restoration performance may be improved by use of multiple read threads that are localized to particular storage containers.“

The patent application was filed on September 30, 2011 (13/250,156).