Druva Assigned Two Patents

Snapshot usage tracking
Druva, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,003,623) developed by Borate, Milind Vithal, and Jain, Somesh, Pune, India, for “snapshot usage tracking system and method.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A snapshot usage tracking system and method for a versioned storage is provided. The system includes a memory having computer-readable instructions stored therein and a snapshot repository configured to store a plurality of snapshots of a versioned storage. Each of the plurality of snapshots includes one or more data blocks. The system further includes a processor communicatively coupled to the snapshot repository and configured to maintain a set of snapshot counters corresponding to each of previous snapshots created on or before a current snapshot based upon a size of the data blocks that are modified or deleted in the current snapshot.”

The patent application was filed on March 22, 2019 (Appl. No 16/361,847).

Data management across cloud storage providers
Druva, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,917,260) developed by Bashyam, Murali, Fremont, CA, and Dinkar, Abhijit, San Jose, CA, for a “data management across cloud storage providers.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Techniques and mechanisms described herein provide for facilitating communications between one or more client machines and one or more cloud storage providers. According to various embodiments, a virtual machine may communicate with one or more client machines via a standard data storage protocol. The virtual machine may also communicate with one or more cloud storage providers via the internet. The virtual machine may then perform operations such as receiving data from a client machine and storing it to the cloud, retrieving data from the cloud and providing it to the client machine, querying data stored in the cloud, reporting on and verifying data stored in the cloud, and transferring and/or transforming data stored in the cloud.”

The patent application was filed on October 24, 2017 (Appl. No 15/792,103).