Veritas Assigned Twelve Patents

Improving quality of service within hybrid storage
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,198,192) developed by Wakhare, Prasanna, and Pendharkar, Niranjan, Pune, India, for “systems and methods for improving quality of service within hybrid storage systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The disclosed computer-implemented method for improving quality of service within hybrid storage systems may include, (1) monitoring a performance measurement of a hybrid storage system that includes first and second types of storage devices that handle I/O throughput in connection with an application, (2) determining, based at least in part on the monitored performance measurement, an approximate amount of the I/O throughput handled by the first type of storage device over a period of time,(3) determining, based at least in part on the approximate amount of I/O throughput, a rate at which the application is allowed to deliver subsequent I/O throughput to the hybrid storage system over a subsequent period of time, and then, (4) regulating, based at least in part on the rate, the subsequent I/O throughput in connection with the application over the subsequent period of time. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.”

The patent application was filed on March 31, 2015 (14/673,898).

Creating snapshots in openflame environment
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,191,879) developed by Awasthi, Nirendra, Pune, India, Uhler, Christopher, Palo Alto, CA, Pendharkar, Niranjan S., Pune, India, De, Subhadeep, Kaul, Vidyut, Sunnyvale, CA, Yalamanchili, Chaitanya, Santa Clara, CA, Nilangekar, Ketan, Mountain View, CA, Narula, Abhishek, Pune, India, Mahajan, Ketan, Maradani, Phani Karthik, Bakshi, Puneet, Maharashtra, India, and Dantkale, Suhas Ashok, Mountain View, CA, for “system and method for creating snapshots in openflame environment.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method for creating snapshots and backups in a virtual computing environment is provided. The method includes writing application output of an application spanning one or more virtual machines as an application consistency group to a writeback cache, wherein the one or more virtual machines are implemented using one or more compute nodes and wherein the writeback cache is implemented in direct attached storage in the one or more compute nodes. The method includes pausing I/O, (input/output) operations of the application and marking the pausing, in the writeback cache. The method includes resuming the I/O operations of the application, after the marking and dumping data, according to the marking, from the writeback cache to a data node, as a snapshot.”

The patent application was filed on June 15, 2015 (14/740,089).

Applying content-based retention policies to data artifacts
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,180,955) developed by Kayyoor, Ashwin, Sunnyvale, CA, Rajamony, Karthik, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, Aloysius, Henry, San Jose, CA, and Kaiser, Scott, Belmont, CA, for “systems and methods for applying content-based retention policies to data artifacts.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The disclosed computer-implemented method for applying content-based retention policies to data artifacts may include, (1) identifying one or more features of a data artifact detected on a computing system,(2) identifying a collection of data artifacts that are,(A) stored on at least one storage system and, (B) retained in accordance with a set of retention policies,(2) determining, based at least in part on the features, that the data artifact detected on the computing system and at least one data artifact within the collection exceed a certain level of similarity relative to one another,(3) analyzing at least one retention policy of the data artifact within the collection, and then,(4) providing a suggestion to apply the retention policy of the data artifact within the collection to the data artifact detected on the computing system. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.”

The patent application was filed on June 22, 2016 (15/190,041).

Load balancing backup data
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,180,801) developed by Paulzagade, Sudhakar, and Kulkarni, Pradip, Pune, India, for “systems and methods for load balancing backup data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The disclosed computer-implemented method for load balancing backup data may include, (1) receiving a request to backup files in a multi-node computing cluster, (2) identifying a backup distribution of the files among multiple backup clients, (3) reading an initial data block of a current file from a data node in the cluster, (4) reading a copy of the initial data block of an additional file from another data node in the cluster, (5) reading a subsequent data block of the current file from the data node in the cluster, and, (6) balancing backup of the current and additional files among the data node and the another data node by reading a copy of a subsequent backup data block of the additional file from the another data node in the multi-node computing cluster. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.”

The patent application was filed on May 16, 2017 (15/596,992).

Generating full backups of applications
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,176,055) developed by Ranade, Sameer, Pune, India, for “systems and methods for generating full backups of applications.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The disclosed computer-implemented method for generating full backups of applications may include, (1) storing, at a backup server that is remote from an application, an initial full backup of the application that indicates an initial version of each data block within the application, (2) after storing the full backup of the application, receiving, from the application, an incremental log file generated by the application that indicates at least one change made to a data block within the application after the initial full backup of the application was generated, and, (3) creating, by applying the change made to the data block within the application to the initial full backup of the application, an updated full backup of the application that indicates the most current version of each data block within the application. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.”

The patent application was filed on November 10, 2015 (14/936,705).

Handling missing storage image layers while provisioning containers in computer clusters
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,175,886) developed by Kantor, Kody, Saint Paul, MN, Makin, Gaurav, Shoreview, MN, and Kjell, John, Forest Lake, MN, for “systems and methods for handling missing storage image layers while provisioning containers in computer clusters.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The disclosed computer-implemented method for provisioning containers in computer clusters may include, (1) identifying a request to provision a container on a host system within a cluster, (2) determining that a missing storage layer image is not locally stored at the host system and initiating a transfer of the missing storage layer image to the host system, (3) creating the container and executing an application within the container on the host system before the missing storage layer image has been transferred to the host system, (4) remotely resolving a read request by reading from an instance of the missing storage layer image that is stored at a separate host system within the cluster, and, (5) resolving a subsequent read request by reading from an instance of the missing storage layer image that is locally stored at the host system. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.”

The patent application was filed on March 31, 2017 (15/476,343).

Virtual machine aware replication
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,162,722) developed by Lin, Chris Chih-Chen, and Janakiraman, Viswesvaran, San Jose, CA, for “virtual machine aware replication method and system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method for replicating a virtual file system of a virtual machine. The method includes accessing a host file system usage map of a host machine that indicates active blocks out of a plurality of blocks of the host file system, and accessing a virtual file system usage map of a virtual machine that indicates active blocks out of a plurality of blocks of the virtual file system. A merged usage map is generated from information of the host file system usage map and the virtual file system usage map that identifies active blocks of the host file system associated with the virtual file system. The virtual file system is then replicated at a replication destination in accordance with the merged usage map.”

The patent application was filed on July 15, 2010 (12/837,445).

Data locality control for deduplication
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,162,711) developed by Zhang, Xianbo, Plymouth, MN, She, Haibin, and Song, Xiaobing, Beijing, China, for a “data locality control for deduplication.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method for data locality control in a deduplication system is provided. The method includes forming a fingerprint cache from a backup image corresponding to a first backup operation. The method includes removing one or more fingerprints from inclusion in the fingerprint cache, in response to the one or more fingerprints having a data segment locality, in a container, less than a threshold of data segment locality. The container has one or more data segments corresponding to the one or more fingerprints. The method includes applying the fingerprint cache, with the one or more fingerprints removed from inclusion therein, to a second backup operation, wherein at least one method operation is executed through a processor.”

The patent application was filed on June 10, 2016 (15/179,578).

Performing live migrations of software containers
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,162,559) developed by Makin, Gaurav, Shoreview, MN, Kantor, Kody, Saint Paul, MN, Wen, Hao, Falcon Heights, MN, Cao, Zhichao, Falcon Heights, MN, and Mehta, Vallari, Pittsburgh, PA, for “systems and methods for performing live migrations of software containers.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The disclosed computer-implemented method for performing live migrations of software containers may include, (i) identifying a request to migrate a software container from a source computing system to a target computing system while a process executes within the software container, (ii) creating a checkpoint of the process in execution, (iii) transferring the checkpoint to the target computing system, (iv) updating the checkpoint recurrently by recurrently creating an incremental checkpoint of the process and merging the incremental checkpoint into the checkpoint, (v) predicting, before updating the checkpoint with an iteration of the incremental checkpoint and based on a size of the iteration of the incremental checkpoint, that finalizing a migration of the software container to the target computing system would meet a predetermined time objective, and, (vi) finalizing the migration of the software container to the target computing system. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.”

The patent application was filed on September 9, 2016 (15/261,596).

Backing up application-consistent data using asynchronous replication
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,152,415) developed by Rajaa, Subash, and Gawali, Ashish L., Pune, India, for “techniques for backing up application-consistent data using asynchronous replication.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Techniques for backing up application-consistent data using asynchronous replication are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for backing up application-consistent data comprising receiving a backup request to backup application data and storing the application data in a volume of storage space. The method may also comprise taking a snapshot of the application data stored in the volume of storage space and quiescing, via a quiescing module comprising at least one computer processor, the snapshot of the application data stored in the volume of storage space. The method further comprise transmitting application-consistent data, wherein the application-consistent data may comprise the application data stored in the volume of storage space and the quiesced snapshot of the application data stored in the volume of storage space.”

The patent application was filed on July 5, 2011 (13/176,004).

Providing data backup services in virtual environment
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,152,266) developed by Jia, Yingsong, Su, Zhi, Beijing, China, and Browning, William, Blaine, MN, for “systems and methods for providing data backup services in a virtual environment.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The disclosed computer-implemented method for providing data backup services in a virtual environment may include, (1) identifying a data path used to transfer, via a storage area network, backup data between a client system and a host operating system of a backup server, (2) establishing communication between the host operating system and a backup agent on a guest operating system of the backup server, and, (3) extending the data path to the guest operating system by facilitating data transfer between the host operating system and the backup agent of the guest operating system such that the backup data is transferred between the client system and the backup agent of the guest operating system. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.”

The patent application was filed on July 28, 2014 (14/445,032).

Disaster recovery rehearsals
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,146,636) developed by Ghare, Shrikant, Maharashtra, India, and Gupta, Hermesh, Madhya Pradesh, India, for a “disaster recovery rehearsals.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Various systems and methods for performing disaster recovery, (DR) rehearsals. For example, one method involves receiving an instruction to perform a DR rehearsal, where the instruction includes information that identifies an object. The method involves determining one or more assets associated with the object and selecting operations based on the assets. The method also involves performing the DR rehearsal, which involves performing the selected operations.”

The patent application was filed on October 14, 2015 (14/883,031).