HiveIO Assigned Patent

HiveIO Inc., Hoboken, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11,221,784) developed by Bezalel, Ofer, Hoboken, NJ, for “method and system for user data backup within a virtual desktop environment.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for providing virtual desktop services includes receiving a request for a session from a user, instantiating a virtual machine for the session, copying user data for the user from a data backup to a user volume attached to the virtual machine, and creating a delta disk associated with the user volume, wherein the delta disk records changes to the user data during the session. A system for providing virtual desktop services, includes a shared storage device having user data stored thereon, a host server configured to run one or more virtual machines, the host server having a local storage device, virtual machine having a user volume with a copy of the user data and a delta disk having changed user data.”

The patent application was filed on November 1, 2019 (16/672,412).