Model9 Software Assigned Patent

Model9 Software Ltd., Kiryat Ono, Israel, has been assigned a patent (10,216,580) developed by Peleg, Gil, Kiryat-Ono, Israel, Kashtan, Yuval, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Zelberzvig, Tomer, Rehovot, Israel, Polotsky, Dori, Tel-Aviv, Israel, and Baruch, Offer, Gannei Tikva, Israel, for “system and method for mainframe computers backup and restore on object storage systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Methods, system and computer program product for backup and restore mainframe data onto an object storage, the methods comprising a backup operation and a restore operation, the backup operation comprising: receiving a request for backing up a data set, splitting the data set into chunks, each chunk having a predetermined size, creating a mapping object, repeating for each chunk: allocating a sender thread to the chunk, transmitting using an object storage API, the chunk having the predetermined size as an object, to the object storage by the sender thread, and updating the mapping object with details of the chunk, subject to the data set being fully split and no more chunks to be transmitted, transmitting the mapping object to the object storage by the sender thread, and writing an identifier of the data set and meta data of the mapping object to a database.“

The patent application was filed on March 29, 2018 (15/940,306).

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