Acronis Assigned Seven Patents

Supporting integrity of data storage with erasure coding
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,613,935) developed by Tormasov, Alexander G., Protasov, Stanislav S., Moscow, Russia, Beloussov, Serguei M., Costa Del Sol, Singapore, and Shmulevich, Mark, Moscow, Russia, for “system and method for supporting integrity of data storage with erasure coding.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method is provided for supporting integrity of distributed data storage with erasure coding. An exemplary method includes receiving a request to create a backup or archive of electronic data using erasure coding, contacting storage nodes and providing an incentive mechanism to incentivize each of the storage nodes to support the distributed data storage, receiving confirmation from at least some of the storage nodes indicating an agreement to store data, generating K data blocks and M parity blocks from the electronic data using erasure coding, and allocating the K data blocks and the M parity blocks to the storage nodes that have agreed to store data.”

The patent application was filed on January 30, 2018 (15/883,214).

Data backup using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,607,026) developed by Tsybrovskyy, Yuriy, Burlington, MA, Protasov, Stanislav S., Moscow, Russia, Beloussov, Serguei M., Costa Del Sol, Singapore, and Shmulevich, Mark, Moscow, Russia, for “system and method for data backup using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosed are systems, methods and computer program products for performing data backup using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). An example method includes in response to detecting a data backup request from a user device, determining a geographic location of the user device and dispatching the UAV to the geographic location, controlling the UAV to obtain user data from the user device, and controlling the UAV to navigate to a data center to back up the obtained user data onto a cloud storage.”

The patent application was filed on March 21, 2017 (15/464,449).

Creation of consistent copies of application data
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,606,704) developed Chepel, Dmitry, Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, and Beloussov, Serguei M., Costa del Sol, Singapore, for a “creation of consistent copies of application data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method, computer program product, computing system, and system for backing up a virtual machine by creating consistent copies of application data are described. The method may include creating a snapshot of a virtual machine running on a host system. The method may further include determining if the snapshot has a snapshot ID and creating the snapshot ID if the snapshot does not have the snapshot ID. The method may also include creating a virtual machine restoration script configured to roll back the virtual machine to a state corresponding to the snapshot based on the snapshot ID. The method may additionally include backing up the host system in a backup archive while the virtual machine continues operating.”

The patent application was filed on December 10, 2015 (14/965,288).

Wearable human interface devices
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,600,417) developed Tormasov, Alexander, Moscow, Russia, Beloussov, Serguei, Costa Del Sol, Singapore, and Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, for “wearable human interface devices and systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The present disclosure generally relates to the field of wearable human interface devices. In one aspect, a human interface device may comprise at least one housing configured to be worn by a user, comprising a transmitter configured to generate a wireless signal and a sensor configured to detect the wireless signal generated by the transmitter, a processing unit, communicatively linked to the sensor and configured to analyze the wireless signal detected by the sensor and calculate the position of a portion of the user wearing the at least one housing based on the wireless signal and a control unit, configured to perform an operation based upon the position of the portion of the user wearing the at least one housing.”

The patent application was filed on February 14, 2018 (15/896,488).

Data deduplication using log-structured merge trees
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,592,348) developed by Pogosyan, Vitaly, Korotaev, Kirill, Moscow, Russia, Beloussov, Serguei, Costa Del Sol, Singapore, Protasov, Stanislav, and Shmulevich, Mark, Moscow, Russia, for “system and method for data deduplication using log-structured merge trees.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosed are systems, methods and computer program products for data deduplication during a backup using at least two LSM trees. An example method includes calculating, for a first data block, a first hash value associated with the first data block and determining a reduced hash value based on the first hash value. The method includes determining whether the first data block contains data duplicative of an existing data block in a prior backup based on whether the reduced hash value occurs in a first log-structured merge,(LSM) tree. If so, the method includes comparing the first hash value to one or more hash values in a second LSM tree to identify a matching hash value, and writing a first segment identifier,(ID) corresponding to the matching hash value in an archive, the first segment ID referencing the existing data block in a segment store.”

The patent application was filed on June 16, 2017 (15/624,796).

Controlling access to content
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,587,595) developed by Naef, Frederick Edward, Arlington, VA, for “controlling access to content.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Methods and systems for controlling access to content are described. The method may include detecting, at a client electronic device, the presence of a beacon device signal emitted from a beacon device. The method may further include determining, based on the beacon device signal, whether the content is accessible from the client electronic device. The method may also include, in response to determining that the content is accessible from the client electronic device, providing access to the content at the client electronic device.”

The patent application was filed on December 30, 2015 (14/984,995).

Controlling access to OS ressources
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,586,076) developed by Simonov, Vladimir, Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, and Beloussov, Serguei M., Singapore, Singapore, for “system and method for controlling access to OS ressources.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosed are systems, methods and computer program products for controlling access to operating system (OS) resources. An exemplary method includes: creating an OS resource associated with a first program, assigning a unique label to the first program, associating the unique label with the OS resource, and configuring a resource descriptor of the OS resource to allow access to the OS resource to processes having the same unique label as the first program, and to deny access to the OS resource to processes having a different label.”

The patent application was filed on August 24, 2016 (15/245,410).