Acronis Assigned Four Patents

Data backup using data binning and deduplication
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,678,654) developed by Pogosyan, Vitaly, Korotaev, Kirill, Shmulevich, Mark, Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, and Beloussov, Serguei M., Costa del Sol, Singapore, for “systems and methods for data backup using data binning and deduplication.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosed are methods and systems for performing data backup which implement data binning using log-structured merge (LSM) trees during deduplication. An exemplary method includes: calculating a reduced hash value (RHV) associated with each of a plurality of data blocks, partitioning the plurality of reduced hash values into groups, selecting a representative hash value for each group, determining whether the representative hash value occurs in a first LSM tree, the first LSM tree stored in a volatile memory, and when the representative hash value occurs in the first LSM tree: loading the RHVs in the representative hash value’s group into volatile memory, comparing each of the RHVs to one or more hash values in a second LSM tree to identify a matching hash value, and writing a segment identifier (ID) corresponding to the matching hash value in an archive, which references a data block in a segment store.”

The patent application was filed on October 25, 2017 (15/793,188).

Backing up virtual machine using snapshot with memory
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,678,651) developed by Borodin, Alexey, Semyonov, Vasily, Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, and Beloussov, Serguei M., Costa Del Sol, Singapore, for “backing up a virtual machine using a snapshot with memory.“

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 using a snapshot with memory are described. The method may include receiving a selection of a virtual machine to be backed up, wherein the virtual machine reads from a source virtual disk. The method may further include creating a non-quiesced snapshot with memory of the virtual machine that captures a state of the virtual machine. The method may also include creating a linked clone of the virtual machine and reverting the linked clone back to the state of the virtual machine using the non-quiesced snapshot with memory. Additionally, the method may include gracefully shutting down the linked clone of the virtual machine such that the linked clone is in a consistent state. Moreover, the method may include reading data from one or more virtual disks associated with the linked clone and saving the data.”

The patent application was filed on December 10, 2015 (14/964,991).

Optimized lock detection
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,671,567) developed by Redko, Andrey, Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, Beloussov, Serguei, Costa Del Sol, Singapore, and Stupak, Anatoly, Moscow, Russia, for “system and method for optimized lock detection.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The present disclosure provides systems and methods for optimizing lock detection in a change block tracker (CBT). A method comprises detecting changes on a disk volume and saving them to current changes, creating a volume changes and a snapshot changes collection, on a snapshot creation request, moving current changes to frozen changes, on a lock request, moving changes to the volume changes collection of the current snapshot, on another lock request, moving volume changes of current snapshot to frozen changes and deleting snapshot changes of current snapshot, when snapshot name is not the same as current snapshot, otherwise: moving the volume changes collection to the frozen changes, copying the frozen changes to the current changes, moving the snapshot changes collection to the frozen changes, and copying the snapshot changes collection to the current changes, moving all volume changes for other snapshots to current changes and allowing the client to read the frozen changes.”

The patent application was filed on September 4, 2018 (16/120,594).

Geo-location-based mobile user authentication
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,623,962) developed by Pashkov, Georgiy, Samara, Russia, Davydov, Kirill, Novovoronezh, Russia, Beloussov, Serguei M., Costa del Sol, Singapore, Protasov, Stanislav, and Shmulevich, Mark, Moscow, Russia, for “system and method for geo-location-based mobile user authentication.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method is provided for geo-location-based user authentication and data access control. An exemplary method includes receiving a request from a mobile device to access a user account and user data where the request includes current geo-location data that indicates a current geographical location of the mobile device/ An authentication server then determines whether the current geo-location data is within at least one geo zone that indicates approved geographical areas where the mobile device can access the user account and data. If the current geographical location of the mobile device is determined to be within the approved geographical areas, the server will provide the mobile device with access to the requested account and data.”

The patent application was filed on March 29, 2017 (15/472,880).