Actifio Assigned Patent

Actifio, Inc., Waltham, MA, has been assigned a patent (10,089,185) developed by Tekade, Uday, Westford, MA, and Groose, Brian, Waltham, MA, for a “multi-threaded smart copy.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods of utilizing multiple threads to facilitate parallel data copying to reduce an amount of time associated with backing up data. A request to copy application is received that indicates a number of available threads. A first available thread is used to select files from the application for backup. Selecting a file includes adding files to a work queue and creating backup work items associated with the work queue files. The files in the work queue are processed by a multiple threads in parallel such that an amount of time associated with backup up the application is reduced.”

The patent application was filed on September 16, 2015 (14/856,196).