Actifio Assigned Patent

Actifio, Inc., Waltham, MA, has been assigned a patent (9,754,005) developed by Potter, Alan, Newton, MA, Groose, Brian, Waltham, MA, and Mutalik, Madhav, Southborough, MA, for a “system and method for incrementally backing up out-of-band data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods are provided for backing up out-of-band storage. A protection policy is activated for out-of-band storage at a remote host, wherein the out-of-band storage is not physically accessible by the computing device, such that the out-of-band storage is not in communication with the remote host through the computing device. A backup request is transmitted to the remote host comprising data indicative of a volume on the out-of-band storage to back up according to the protection policy. A response to the backup request is received comprising staging disk requirements for the volume, the staging disk requirements comprising a required size for a staging disk to back up the volume. A staging disk is determined based on the response. The staging disk is presented to the remote host. A backup result is received comprising data indicative of whether a backup of the volume to the staging disk succeeded.“

The patent application was filed on June 18, 2013 (13/920,981).