Acronis Assigned Patent

Acronis International GmbH, Shaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,789,136) developed by Ruslyakov, Alexey A., Moscow Region, Russia, Lyadvinsky, Maxim V., Moscow, Russia, Manukyan, Emil, Yerevan, Armenia, and Beloussov, Serguei M., Costa del Sol, Singapore, for a “granular recovery using hot-plug virtual disks.“

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 using hot-plug virtual disks in granular recovery are described. The method may include receiving, at a cloud computing site, a backup configuration including a list of protected resources associated with a cloud computing tenant. The method may further include mounting a hot-plug virtual disk to a virtual machine including the protected resources associated with the cloud computing tenant. The method may also include collecting metadata corresponding to the protected resources associated with the cloud computing tenant. The method may additionally include generating, at the cloud computing site, a backup of the virtual machine including the protected resources associated with the cloud computing tenant. Moreover, the method may include storing the metadata corresponding to the protected resources associated with the cloud computing tenant and storing the backup of the virtual machine including the protected resources associated with the cloud computing tenant.”

The patent application was filed on June 30, 2014 (14/320,422).