Quest Software Assigned Patent

Quest Software Inc., Aliso Viejo, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,191,917) developed by Kacin, Martin, Palo Alto, CA, Reistroffer, Kirk L., Fremont, CA, and Gray, Michael R., Dublin, OH, for a “virtual disk utility.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”In particular embodiments, a method comprising, by one or more computing devices, installing an application on a portion of a physical disk system of a first platform, virtualizing the portion of the physical disk system into a virtual disk system, comprising, storing data in the portion of the physical disk system in a database of the virtual disk system, providing an interface to access the data stored in the database, and providing a plurality sets of drivers for a plurality of platforms, wherein each set of drivers supports native operations with respect to the portion of the physical disk system on a different one of the plurality of platforms, mounting the virtual disk system on a second platform, and executing the application on the second platform, wherein all operations in connection with executing the application are contained within the virtual disk system mounted on the second platform.”

The patent application was filed on March 21, 2016 (15/075,526).