FalconStor Assigned Patent

FalconStor, Inc., Melville, NY, has been assigned a patent (9,996,423) developed by Williams, Timothy, Northport, NY, for a “point in time snapshots using copy on predicted write.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods of writing to a storage system comprise analyzing a plurality of snapshots of data blocks of a storage device and determining a likelihood that a next first write will be to a respective data block based, at least in part, on the analyzed plurality of snapshots. A snapshot is then taken of a selected data block based, at least in part, on the respective likelihood for the selected data block, before receiving a write request to the selected data block. A write request to a respective data block is then received and data is written to the respective data block, if the snapshot of the respective data block had been taken. If the snapshot of the respective data block had not been taken, then a snapshot of the respective data block is taken. Then data is then written to the respective data block.”

The patent application was filed on November 4, 2014 (14/532,669).