Zerto Assigned Patent

Zerto Ltd., Herzliya, Israel, has been assigned a patent (9,690,886) developed by Barash, Gil, Tel-Aviv, Israel, for a “system and method for a simulation of a block storage system on an object storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An embodiment may simulate a block storage system on an object storage system. An embodiment may define one or more logical parts of the block storage system and may store data included in the logical parts in a respective plurality of objects in the object storage system. In order to modify a simulation when data in the block storage system is modified, an embodiment may create a new object in the object storage system and may store the modified data in the new object. An embodiment may update a range-map to include at least one of: a reference to the new object, a logical address of the modified data, a size of the modified data and a counter.“

The patent application was filed on June 30, 2016 (15/197,812).