Tintri Assigned Patent

Tintri Inc., Mountain View, CA, (acquired by DDN) has been assigned a patent (10,120,700) developed by Walters, Rex R., Los Gatos, CA, and Salmon, Brandon W., Menlo Park, CA, for “using a control virtual disk for storage management.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Storage management is disclosed, including: causing at least a control portion of a virtual disk to be created for a virtual machine, and using the at least control portion of the virtual disk as a communication channel between the virtual machine and a storage system.”

The patent application was filed on October 1, 2013 (14/043,485).