Quantum Assigned Patent

Quantum Corporation, San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,099,765) developed by Wade, Greg, Simon, Gerald, and Herman, Barry, San Jose, CA, for a “data protection of container persistent storage with changed block tracking.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Embodiments include methods, apparatus, or processors configured to access a tracking enabled storage volume associated with a container, perform a full backup of the storage volume, where performing the full backup includes defining a full backup point, perform a first incremental backup of the storage volume based on the full backup point, where performing the first incremental backup includes defining a current backup point, determine whether a backup termination condition has been met, upon determining that the backup termination condition has not been met: performing a subsequent incremental backup of the storage volume based on the current backup point, and updating the current backup point. Embodiments may restore the tracking enabled storage volume from the full backup and the incremental backups.”

The patent application was filed on September 28, 2018 (16/146,358).