Acronis Assigned Patent

Acronis International GmbH, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,185,504) developed by Pogosyan, Vitaliy, Moscow Region, Russia, Yusupov, Ramil, Magnitogorsk, Russia, Tsvetkov, Anton, Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, and Beloussov, Serguei M., Costa del Sol, Singapore, for a “reducing data transmitted during backup.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method for reducing an amount of data transmitted during a backup process is described. The method may include receiving input data to insert into a rating hash table during the backup process. The method may further include selecting, based on a hash function, a bucket of the rating hash table in which the input data will be inserted, the bucket including a plurality of blocks. The method may also include, in response to determining that the input data has already been inserted in one of the plurality of blocks, increasing a rating corresponding to the one of the plurality of blocks by a popularity rating increment. The method may additionally include, in response to determining that the input data has not already been inserted in one of the plurality of blocks, determining a first block with a smallest rating from the plurality of blocks.”

The patent application was filed on November 25, 2015 (14/952,232).