Acronis Assigned Seven Patents

Increasing speed of synchronization and restore
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,911,537) developed by Chepel, Dmitry, Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, and Beloussov, Serguei M., Costa del Sol, Singapore, for “increasing speed of synchronization and restore.“

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 increasing speed during synchronization or restore are described. The method may include acquiring list of items to be synchronized or restored. The method may further include defining a set of storage sources available to a client computer. The method may also include mounting the available storage sources to the client computer. The method may additionally include determining a storage intersection of items in the list based on the items being available in more than one mounted storage device. Moreover, the method may include, in response to determining a set of items that has a storage intersection, synchronizing or restoring the items based on at least one of a speed of download and a network latency.”

The patent application was filed on December 31, 2015 (14/986,164).

Utility ranking and funding for cloud storage
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,904,022) developed by Beloussov, Serguei, Costa del Sol, Singapore, Melnikov, Oleg, Kirkland, WA, and Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, for “system and method for utility ranking and funding for cloud storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosed herein are systems and methods for managing access to data objects in cloud storage. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, by a hardware processor, storing a first data object in a cloud storage service, wherein the first data object is uploaded by a first user, modifying a data access policy associated with the first data object to permit access by user accounts other than the first user, determining a utility ranking of the first data object based on a degree of access of the first data object using the cloud storage service, and modifying a data retention policy associated with the first data object based on the determined utility ranking.”

The patent application was filed on August 22, 2019 (16/548,376).

De-duplicating blocks of data
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,877,666) developed by Volkov, Oleg, Zaitsev, Andrey, Korotaev, Kirill, Moscow, Russia, Beloussov, Serguei, Costa del Sol, Singapore, and Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, for “methods and systems for de-duplicating blocks of data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosed herein are systems and method for de-duplicating blocks of data. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises for each previously de-duplicated block of data of a de-duplication engine, storing de-duplicated pages references by hashes and a block descriptor, creating a set of hash components of the previously de-duplicated blocks, and for each newly received block of data for de-duplication, calculating a translation tolerant hash vector including a predetermined number of hash components, determining a similarity of the received block to the previously de-duplicated blocks based on a comparison of the hash components of the received block with the hash components in the set, and when the received block is determined as being similar to the previously processed blocks based on the comparison, storing the block without duplication in the de-duplication engine, including pages of the block referenced by hashes and a block descriptor.”

The patent application was filed on June 10, 2019 (16/435,701).

Cloud-based for protecting devices from malwares
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,826,919) developed by Kostyushko, Alexey, Strogov, Vladimir, Moscow, Russia, Beloussov, Serguei, Costa Del Sol, Singapore, Protasov, Stanislav, Pereberina, Anastasia, and Grebennikov, Nikolay, Moscow, Russia, for “methods and cloud-based systems for protecting devices from malwares.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosed herein are systems and method for protecting an endpoint device from malware. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises performing, by a light analysis tool of the endpoint, a light static analysis of a sample, terminating the process and notifying the user when the process is malware, performing light dynamic analysis when the process is not malware based on the light static analysis, when the process is clean based on the light dynamic analysis, enabling the process to execute, when the process is malware, terminating the process and notifying the user, and when the process is suspicious pattern, suspending the process, setting a level of trust, sending the sample to a sandbox, terminating the process and notifying the user when the process is a malware based on received final verdict, enabling the process to resume executing when the process is determined as being clean based on the final verdict.”

The patent application was filed on October 29, 2018 (16/173,405).

Dynamic online backup optimization
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,826,805) developed by Korotaev, Kirill, Shmulevich, Mark, Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, and Beloussov, Serguei M., Costa del Sol, Singapore, for “system and method for dynamic online backup optimization.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Methods of optimizing transmission of data from a client to a remote data center are disclosed, as well as systems and computer program products related to the same. An exemplary method comprises: receiving data, at a first intervening data center, transmitted from a client and addressed to a terminal data center, wherein the first intervening data center and the terminal data center are selected from a plurality of connected data centers, and transferring the data, from the first intervening data center through one or more additional intervening data centers selected from the plurality of connected data centers, until the data reaches the terminal data center, wherein each data center in the plurality of data centers independently selects a connected data center to transfer the data to based upon the amount of latency and/or bandwidth available at the connected data center.”

The patent application was filed on July 10, 2017 (15/644,902).

User clustering based on metadata analysis
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,817,542) developed by Aseev, Evgeny A., Moscow, Russia, Solanki, Sanjeev, Singapore, Singapore, Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, and Beloussov, Serguei M., Costa Del Sol, Singapore, for an “user clustering based on metadata analysis.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A systems and methods of managing user data using clustering patterns based on metadata analysis. The described technique includes receiving file metadata from multiple user devices, where the file metadata is associated with data stored on the plurality of user devices associated with a plurality of users. The technique generates a user metadata fingerprint based on a plurality of user metadata record attributes contained in the file metadata, and determines clustering of the plurality of users based on the generated user metadata fingerprint. The data for the plurality of users may be stored based on the determined clustering.”

The patent application was filed on February 28, 2018 (15/907,735).

Proactive disaster recovery based on external event monitoring
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,795,758) developed by Korotaev, Kirill, Moscow, Russia, Beloussov, Serguei, Costa del Sol, Singapore, Tormasov, Alexander, Melnikov, Oleg, Shaikhatarov, Oleg, and Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, for a “proactive disaster recovery based on external event monitoring.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosed are systems and methods for proactive disaster recovery. The described technique monitors for events raised by a system of interconnected external sensors and other devices for obtaining data on the external environment of servers. The system uses these events as a chain of triggers according to which preventative or preparatory actions for disaster recovery are performed.”

The patent application was filed on February 28, 2018 (16/196,099).