Veritas Assigned Nine Patents

Backing up virtual machines deployed in virtual storage area networks
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,753,810) developed by Khandelwal, Atul, Pune, India, for a “systems and methods for backing up virtual machines deployed in virtual storage area networks.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The disclosed computer-implemented method for backing up virtual machines deployed in virtual storage area networks may include, (1) detecting an attempt to back up a virtual machine deployed in a virtual storage area network, (2) identifying, within the virtual storage area network, a plurality of virtual servers that are each hosting a portion of the virtual machine, (3) obtaining each portion of the virtual machine in parallel from the plurality of virtual servers within the virtual storage area network, and then, (4) backing up each portion of the virtual machine obtained from the plurality of virtual servers. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.“

The patent application was filed on July 28, 2014 (14/445,028).

Virtual machine boot disk restoration
Veritas Technologies, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,740,520) developed by Sarda, Pooja, Cupertino, CA, and Modi, Dipen, San Jose, CA, for a “systems and methods for virtual machine boot disk restoration.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A computer-implemented method for virtual machine boot disk restoration may include, (1) identifying a hypervisor that hosts at least one virtual machine, where a replication system is configured to replicate virtual machine data stored by the virtual machine, including a virtual machine boot disk used by the virtual machine, to a data repository that is separate from the hypervisor, (2) determining that the replication system is to restore the replicated virtual machine data back to the hypervisor for the virtual machine, including boot disk data replicated from the virtual machine boot disk, (3) attaching, at the hypervisor, the virtual machine boot disk to a storage proxy virtual machine hosted by the hypervisor, and, (4) restoring, from the replication system and via the storage proxy virtual machine, the boot disk data back to the virtual machine boot disk. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.“

The patent application was filed on September 30, 2015 (14/871,037).

Scalable clusterwide de-duplication
Veritas Technologies, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,727,273) developed by Dantkale, Suhas, Sunnyvale, CA, Pendharkar, Niranjan, Pune, India, and Yalamanchili, Chaitanya, Santa Clara, CA, for a “scalable clusterwide de-duplication.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system and method for minimizing duplicate data transfer in a clustered storage system, having compute nodes in a compute plane coupled to data nodes in a data plane is provided. The method may include generating a hash key relating to content of a virtual disk associated with a compute node. During a data replication phase, the method may detect duplicate data stored in respective storage units of the compute node and the data node using the hash key. Further, the method may eliminate redundant data transfers through the use of an index and mapping scheme, where only non-duplicate data is transferred along with a set of logical block addresses associated with duplicate data from the replicating compute node to the data node. During a data recovery phase, the method may transfer duplicate data from a peer compute node or from a virtual machine to the requesting compute node, eliminating excess data transfer.“

The patent application was filed on February 18, 2016 (15/047,479).

Performing incremental SQL server database backups
Veritas Technologies, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,703,640) developed by Beatty, Louis J., Ormond Beach, FL, Payne, Michael A., Archer, FL, Devos, Steven R., Kirkland, WA, and Saraf, Deepak, Windermere, FL, for a “method and system of performing incremental SQL server database backups.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system, method, and medium for performing incremental backups of a Microsoft SQL server database. A snapshot of the database is created, and then a map identifying the changed extents is retrieved from the snapshot. The changed extents are then retrieved from the snapshot and stored in a backup storage device. For a restore operation, a full database backup file is written to a storage device and then the changed extents from a stored incremental backup file may be merged with the full backup file. Next, the database server is notified of the reconstructed file and then the reconstructed file is mounted by the database server as a live instance of the database.“

The patent application was filed on January 20, 2014 (14/159,235).

Archive systems
Veritas Technologies, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,690,789) developed by Dwivedi, Alok, Reading, Great Britain, for a “archive systems and methods .“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Archive systems and methods are presented. In one embodiment, an archival information storage configuration method comprises: performing an information accessing process including determining if the information is associated with an archive process, and performing an archive storage boundary determination process including establishing archive storage boundaries based upon characteristics indicating potential sharing of the information and potential impacts on performance of archival storage operations. In one exemplary implementation, the archive storage boundary determination process comprises: performing an information mining process including identifying an indication the information is potentially shared, and performing an archival boundary selection process including selecting an archive storage boundary based in at least part upon results of the information mining process.“

The patent application was filed on December 9, 2011 (13/316,370).

Cloud-based data protection storage
Veritas Technologies, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,690,499) developed by Gipp, Stephan, Inver Grove Heights, MN, for a “systems and methods for cloud-based data protection storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A computer-implemented method for cloud-based data protection storage may include, (1) identifying a request to maintain a data protection image for a volume of data, (2) identifying a third-party storage service to use for storing the data protection image, (3) receiving a stream of data to apply to the data protection image,(4) buffering a portion of the stream of data,(5) writing the buffered portion of the stream to the third-party storage service as a single storage object, and, (6) associating the single storage object with the buffered portion of the stream in a data map. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.“

The patent application was filed on November 4, 2010 (12/939,734).

Dismounting storage volume
Veritas Technologies, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,684,573) developed by Manmohan, Sarin Sumit, Pune, India, and Deshmukh, Manav Laxmikant, Sunnyvale, CA, for a “dismounting a storage volume.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “In response to an instruction to dismount a storage volume, for example, an object in the storage volume is identified and a handle that references the object is closed. Once an exclusive lock on the storage volume is acquired, the storage volume can be dismounted. The storage volume can then remounted.“

The patent application was filed on April 29, 2010 (12/770,577).

Enforcing data lifecycle policy across multiple domains
Veritas Technologies, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,678,965) developed by Wartnick, Jeremy Howard, Minnetonka, MN, and Swift, Jeremy Dean, Plymouth, MN, for a “system and method for enforcing data lifecycle policy across multiple domains.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A first backup storage system within a receiving domain receives information from an originating domain distinct from the receiving domain. The first backup storage system includes at least one storage device and the information includes backup data and corresponding lifecycle policy information for the backup data. The first backup storage system automatically performs an operation relating to the backup data, where the operation is specified by the received lifecycle policy information. In some embodiments, the lifecycle policy information may be received by the receiving domain within a header located within the backup data.“

The patent application was filed on June 29, 2009 (12/494,014).

Managing data protection of storage units
Veritas Technologies, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,678,836) developed by Westenberg, Guido, Columbia Heights, MN, for a “systems and methods for managing data protection of storage units.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A computer-implemented method for managing data protection of storage units may include (1) providing a user interface that enables a user to configure data protection policies for storage units, (2) selecting at least one storage unit for data protection, (3) enabling the user to configure, through the user interface, a data protection policy to schedule a data backup of the storage unit, and (4) enabling the user to configure, through the same user interface, the same data protection policy to schedule a data transfer operation from the storage unit to an additional storage unit. The data transfer operation may include at least one of a replication operation and a continuous data protection operation. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.“

The patent application was filed on July 6, 2012 (13/543,717).