Druva Assigned Patent

Druva, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,802,925) developed by Borate, Milind, and Gangalwar, Gaurav, Pune, India, for a “synthetic full backup storage over object storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosed embodiments include a method, system and non-transitory computer-readable medium) for backing up updated portions of a plurality files having hierarchical relationships through object storage. In one or more embodiments, a file is segregated into chunks, and objects corresponding to the chunks are generated for storage at an object storage. For a chunk, an object for storing the chunk and additional objects for storing mapping information are generated. The mapping information may include path information identifying a path of the file in a hierarchical structure, a file version list identifying a version of the file, a chunk list describing an association between the file and the chunks, a chunk version list identifying a version of the chunk, etc. When a portion of the file is updated, objects corresponding to the updated portion of the file can be generated, and stored at the object storage.”

The patent application was filed on January 2, 2018 (15/860,525).