FalconStor Assigned Three Patents

Data deduplication
FalconStor, Inc., Melville, NY, has been assigned a patent (9,785,644) developed by Lam, Wayne, Muttontown, NY, for a “data deduplication.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of deduplicating data is disclosed comprising mounting, by a deduplication appliance, network shared storage of a client machine, via a network, accessing data to be deduplicated on the network shared storage device, deduplicating the data, storing the deduplicated data on a second storage device, and replacing the data in the network shared storage device by at least one indicator of the location of the deduplicated data in the second storage device. A method is also disclosed for copying deduplicated data stored by a deduplication appliance, by a client machine, comprising receiving a request to copy data from a first location to a second location, by the client machine, by providing at least one second indicator to the third location on the deduplication appliance, at the second location, if the source and the destination are on the deduplication appliance. Systems are also disclosed.”

The patent application was filed on August 31, 2011 (13/199,454).

Host image transfer
FalconStor, Inc., Melville, NY, has been assigned a patent (9,734,019) developed by Wei, Po-Hsin, Taipei, Taiwan, Malitzis, Andrew Spyros, Old Bethpage, NY, Modansky, Andrew Lee, Rockville Centre, NY, and Chang, Sheng-Chang, Taipei, Taiwan, for a “systems and methods for host image transfer.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Methods and systems for transferring a host image of a first machine to a second machine, such as during disaster recovery or migration, are disclosed. In one example, a first profile of a first machine of a first type, such as a first client machine, is compared to a second profile of a second machine, such as a recovery machine or a second client machine of a second type different from the first type, to which the host image is to be transferred, by a first processing device. The first and second profiles each comprise at least one property of the first type of first machine and the second type of second machine, respectively. At least one property of a host image of the first machine is conformed to at least one corresponding property of the second machine. The conformed host image is provided to the second machine, via a network. The second machine is configured with at least one conformed property of the host image by a second processing device of the second machine.”

The patent application was filed on June 8, 2016 (15/176,800).

Identifying and mitigating redundancies in stored data
FalconStor, Inc., Melville, NY, has been assigned a patent (9,710,476) developed by Lam, Wai, Jericho, NY, for a “system and method for identifying and mitigating redundancies in stored data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “In an example of an embodiment of the invention, a repeating pattern is identified within stored data comprising a plurality of data files, each data file comprising at least a header section and a data section stored in an unknown format. At least one occurrence of the repeating pattern is identified as a header section of a respective data file, and a data section of the respective data file is identified based, at least in part, on a location of the at least one occurrence of the repeating pattern. The identified data section of the respective data file is backed up. Systems are also disclosed.”

The patent application was filed on March 4, 2013 (13/784,633).