Exablox Assigned Patent
Exposing proprietary image backup to hypervisor as disk file that is bootable by hypervisor
By Francis Pelletier | May 26, 2020 at 2:14 pmExablox Corporation, Sunnyavle, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,628,208) developed by Bushman, Nathan S., Pleasant Grove, UT, and Bender, Jr., Lee Carl, Lindon, UT, for “exposing a proprietary image backup to a hypervisor as a disk file that is bootable by the hypervisor.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Exposing a proprietary image backup to a hypervisor as a disk file that is bootable by the hypervisor. In one example embodiment, a method of exposing a proprietary image backup to a hypervisor as a disk file that is bootable by the hypervisor may include identifying the proprietary image backup having a proprietary format and storing an operating system, identifying a plugin file corresponding to the proprietary image backup, gathering operating system data from the proprietary image backup, reformatting the operating system data into a native format of the hypervisor, and booting the operating system in a guest virtual machine of the hypervisor.”
The patent application was filed on September 10, 2018 (16/127,168).
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