Model9 Software Assigned Patent

Model9 Software Ltd., Kiryat Ono, Israel, has been assigned a patent (10,228,879) developed by Peleg, Gil, Kiryat-Ono, Israel, Baruch, Offer, Gannei Tikva, Israel, Polotsky, Dori, Tel-Aviv, Israel, and Zelberzvig, Tomer, Rehovot, Israel, for “system and method for backup and restore of offline disks in mainframe computers.“

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 of mainframe computer, the method for backup comprising: receiving a request for backing up a mainframe volume associated with a mainframe computer, the mainframe volume operating in the Count Key Data, (CKD) architecture, the mainframe volume having a volume serial number, referred to as a volume name, taking a snapshot of the volume, thereby creating an offline copy of the volume, generating a temporary name for the offline copy, the temporary name different from the volume name, reformatting the offline copy to change its name to the temporary name, storing in a repository at least the name and the temporary name, bringing the offline copy with the temporary name to an online state, and backing up the copy to an external storage.”

The patent application was filed on July 2, 2018 (16/025,181).