Parallels International Assigned Patent

Parallels International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,628,317) developed by Zelenov, Anton, Dobrovolskiy, Nikolay, Moscow, RU, and Beloussov, Serguei, Costa Del Sol, Singapore, for “system and method for caching data in a virtual storage environment based on the clustering of related data blocks.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Systems and methods are disclosed herein for caching data in a virtual storage environment. An exemplary method comprises monitoring, by a hardware processor, operations on a virtual storage device, identifying, by a hardware processor, transitions between blocks of the virtual storage device that have the operations performed thereon, determining, by a hardware processor, a relationship between each of the blocks based on the identified transitions, clustering the blocks into groups of related blocks based on the relationship and applying, by a hardware processor, one of a plurality of different caching policies to blocks in each of the groups based on clustering.”

The patent application was filed on September 13, 2018 (16/129,993).