Acronis Assigned Eight Patents

Automated disaster recovery and data redundancy management
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,970,179) developed by Ruslyakov, Alexey, Moscow Region, Russia, Beloussov, Serguei M., Costa del Sol, Singapore, Protasov, Stanislav,and Lyadvinsky, Maxim V., Moscow, Russia, for “automated disaster recovery and data redundancy management systems and methods.“

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 automated disaster recovery are described. The method may include creating, using a backup engine running at a computing device, a backup of a server at a primary computing site, storing the created backup at a storage device at a secondary computing site, monitoring, using a monitoring component, an operating status of the server at the primary computing site, in response to determining, via the monitoring component, that the server at the primary computing site is unavailable based on the operating status, initiating a disaster recovery process at the secondary computing site, and running a copy of the server from the created backup at the secondary computing site.”

The patent application was filed on September 28, 2015 (14/867,705).

Data protection during full data backup
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,956,270) developed by Redko, Andrey, Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, Beloussov, Serguei, Singapore, Singapore, and Shmulevich, Mark, Moscow, Russia, for “system and method for data protection during full data backup.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method is provided for performing a full data backup of user data with data protection. An example method includes generating a snapshot of the electronic data stored in memory, initiating a transfer of the electronic data to a data storage facility, detecting requests to modify a file of the electronic data, saving an initial version of the file based on the snapshot of the electronic data, continuing the transfer of the data to the data storage facility, and transferring the modified file using the initial version of the file based on the snapshot of the electronic data.”

The patent application was filed on March 30, 2016 (15/084,815).

Publication of private data using blockchain network
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,951,394) developed by Tormasov, Alexander, Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, and Beloussov, Serguei, Costa del Sol, Singapore, for “system and method for publication of private data using a blockchain network.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method for encrypting and publishing data using blockchain technology is provided. An exemplary method includes receiving, by one or more nodes of a distributed network that maintains a blockchain, a message requesting publication of private information within the blockchain subsequent to a specified time interval. Moreover, the method includes recording a sequence of transactions in the blockchain based on the time interval, wherein each transaction in the sequence of transactions includes a payload calculated using a first homomorphic operation, and extracting the private information from a final payload of a final transaction in the sequence of transactions from the blockchain.”

The patent application was filed on August 15, 2018 (15/998,403).

Preventive ransomware detection using file honeypots
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,938,854) developed by Strogov, Vladimir, Dod, Alexey, Kostyushko, Alexey, Chernyakovsky, Valeriy, Moscow, Russia, Beloussov, Serguei, Costa del Sol, Singapore, Ulasen, Sergey, and Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, for “systems and methods for preventive ransomware detection using file honeypots.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method is provided for detecting ransomware and malicious programs. An exemplary method comprises generating, by a hardware processor, a file honeypot in a directory in a filesystem, wherein the file honeypot is included on a file list of contents of the directory, receiving a directory enumeration request from a process executing in an operating system environment, determining whether the process is identified in a list of trusted processes based on one or more of a certificate, fingerprint, name, and process identifier, when the process is not found in the list of trusted processes, providing, by the filesystem, the file list including the file honeypot to the process responsive to receiving the directory enumeration request and otherwise, providing the file list excluding the file honeypot to the process, intercepting, by a filesystem filter driver, a file modification request for the file honeypot from the process when the file honeypot is included in the file list and identifying the process as a suspicious object responsive to intercepting the file modification request from the process.”

The patent application was filed on September 17, 2018 (16/132,639).

Verification of data transferred among several storages
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,938,571) developed by Lysenko, Victor, Protasov, Stanislav, Shmulevich, Mark, Moscow, Russia, and Beloussov, Serguei M, Costa Del Sol, Singapore, for “system and method for verification of data transferred among several data storages.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosed are system and method for verification of data transferred among several data storages. An exemplary method includes: calculating first hash-sums of the data during an initial placement in a data storage, transmitting the first hash-sums to at least one blockchain network, detecting a transfer of the data to a new data storage, calculating second hash-sums of the data after a placement of the data in the new data storage, transmitting the second hash-sums to the at least one blockchain network, comparing the first and second hash-sums of the data, and determining data immutability after the transfer of the data from the data storage to the new data storage based at least on results of the comparing.”

The patent application was filed on October 23, 2017 (15/790,140).

Backup of computing systems
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,936,433) developed by Tsvetkov, Anton, Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, and Beloussov, Serguei, Costa del Sol, Singapore, for “systems and methods for backup of computing systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Systems and methods for monitoring backup performance of a computing device are described. In one aspect, the disclosure relates to automatic transparent load-balancing such that there is no or substantially no user involvement and resource usage is optimized. In one aspect, the disclosure relates to customization of backup destination by user using scripting such that backups can be distributed by a rule to different locations or it can use local for agent configuration to resolve backup performance degradation issues.”

The patent application was filed on December 30, 2015 (14/984,159).

Cloud AI engine for malware analysis and attack prediction
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,917,435) developed by Stupak, Anatoly, Strogov, Vladimir, Dod, Alexey, Moscow, Russia, Beloussov, Serguei, Costa del Sol, Singapore, Chernyakovskiy, Valeriy, Kostyushko, Alexey, and Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, for a “cloud AI engine for malware analysis and attack prediction.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Methods and systems are disclosed herein for detecting malicious software executing on a plurality of computing devices. In an exemplary aspect, a method comprises collecting, from a plurality of agents executing on a respective computing device, analysis data corresponding to executables on the respective computing device, determining a suspicious activity pattern based on the received analysis data, determining that at least one executable on a computing device is malware based on the determined suspicious activity pattern, generating a plurality of remedial actions for protecting respective computing devices of the plurality of agents based on the suspicious activity pattern, and distributing, to the plurality of agents, the plurality of remedial actions to protect the respective computing device from the malware.”

The patent application was filed on August 17, 2018 (15/998,856).

Platform-independent migration and replication of computer systems
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,915,347) developed by Per, Yuri, Moscow Region, Russia, Beloussov, Serguei M., Costa del Sol, Singapore, Miroshkin, Vladimir, Protasov, Stanislav, and Lyadvinsky, Maxim V., Moscow, Russia, for “system and method for platform-independent migration and replication of computer systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Systems and methods for migrating and/or replicating computer systems are disclosed. Computer systems may be migrated and/or replicated from physical systems or virtual systems to physical or virtual systems. Migrating/replicating computer systems comprises determining the structure of the source computer system, generating instructions for migrating/replicating the structure of the computer system, and packaging the instructions in an executable package. The instructions may be formatted as a template, such as an OVF template, and be packaged with an executable agent and task list. The executable agent may be received and executed by a destination computer system. Executing the executable package may cause the instructions to be executed, as well as the optional agent, there configuring the destination computer system, possibly copying data present on the source computer system, and possibly rebooting the destination computer system.”

The patent application was filed on September 30, 2014 (14/502,060).