Virtuozzo International Assigned Three Patents

Deploying servers in distributed storage to improve fault tolerance
Virtuozzo International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (11,385,981) developed by Silakov, Denis, Emelyanov, Pavel, Moscow, Russia, and Kobets, Alexey, Seattle, WA, for “system and method for deploying servers in a distributed storage to improve fault tolerance.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Disclosed herein are systems and method for deploying servers in a distributed storage to improve fault tolerance. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, on a hardware server, installing an OS on a virtual disk, putting the virtual disk on the distributed storage, configuring the hardware server so that at least two physical block devices of the hardware server are bootable by putting, on each physical block device of the at least two physical block devices, a boot component, and configuring the boot component on any one physical block device of the at least two physical block devices, the configuration of the boot component including enabling the boot component to perform at least one of: mounting the virtual disk as a root file system of the OS, and booting the OS from the mounted virtual disk during a booting of the hardware server.”

The patent application was filed on December 28, 2018 (16/234,940).

Recovering node in cloud infastructure after intrusion
Virtuozzo International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (11,385,807) developed by Emelyanov, Pavel, Moscow, Russia, and Kobets, Alexey, Seattle, WA, for “system and method for recovering a node in a cloud infastructure after an intrusion.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Disclosed herein are systems and method for recovering a computing device after an intrusion is detected. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, by a minimalistic operating system running on the computing device, deploying a master container, wherein the deploying of the master container comprises creating and starting the master container from a container image, providing, to the master container, access to a storage area network (SAN) volume, providing, to the master container, read-only access to a Distributed Configuration Management (DCM) module domain, the domain being where a configuration of the computing device is stored, and invoking an Intrusion Detection Module (IDM) to start detecting intrusions into the master container, and upon receiving a notification from the IDM, re-deploying, by the minimalistic OS, the master container from the container image, wherein the deployed master container acts as a default runtime environment on the computing device.”

The patent application was filed on December 31, 2019 (16/731,988).

Encryption of ephemeral storage
Virtuozzo International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (11,216,566) developed by Monakhov, Dmitry, Emelyanov, Pavel, Moscow, Russia, and Kobets, Alexey, Seattle, WA, for “system and method for encryption of ephemeral storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Disclosed are systems and methods for encryption of an ephemeral layer of one or more containers. An exemplary method comprises detecting a container starting execution in an operating system, generating a temporary encryption key and storing the temporary encryption key in memory of a kernel of the operating system, creating an encrypted area as the ephemeral layer in a storage device, the encrypted area accessible only by the container, providing to the container access to the encrypted area, and responsive to stopping execution of the container, destroying the temporary encryption key.”

The patent application was filed on December 31, 2019 (16/731,381).