Cohesity Assigned Four Patents

Hosting virtual machines on secondary storage
Cohesity, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11461131) developed by Bhat, Anand, Boggarapu, Anil Kumar, Bangalore, India, and Jagannath, Arvind, San Jose, CA, for “hosting virtual machines on a secondary storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “At least a portion of a virtual machine is hosted on at least one node of a first subset of a plurality of nodes of a secondary storage system. The virtual machine comprises a plurality of portions that can be distributed between the plurality of nodes and is configured into a first state of a plurality of states, such that, in the first state, the plurality of portions is distributed between a first subset of the plurality of nodes and each of the first subset of nodes stores a portion of the virtual machine in its corresponding storage device. A node from the second subset of the plurality of nodes to host the virtual machine in a second state of the plurality of states is selected based on at least one of storage, memory or processing resources of one or more nodes of a second subset of the plurality of nodes.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-12-08 (17/115214).

Restoring storage system using file relocation metadata
Cohesity, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11422727) developed by Mandagere, Nagapramod, Mountain View, CA, Ng, Yu-Shen, Mountain View, CA, and Chawla, Karandeep Singh, Santa Clara, CA, for “restoring a storage system using file relocation metadata.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A request to restore a plurality of files to a first storage system from a backup stored at a second storage system is received. Corresponding file relocation metadata for each of the plurality of files is provided to the first storage system. The corresponding file relocation metadata for each of the plurality of files enables accessibility of contents of the plurality of files at the first storage system without storing entire contents of the plurality of files at the first storage system. A corresponding full content version for at least one of the plurality of files that is to be utilized by the first storage system is provided to enable direct access at the first storage system to contents of the at least one of the plurality of files instead of utilizing corresponding file relocation metadata for the at least one of the plurality of files to access the contents of the at least one of the plurality of files.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-05-13 (15/931197).

Efficient restoration of content
Cohesity, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11403024) developed by Bajaj, Rupesh, Dewas, India, Ayachit, Prajakta, Maharashtra, India,Gupta, Apurv, Varun, Janga, Bangalore, India, Thomas, Markose, CA, San Jose, Cai, Zheng, Cupertino, and Korsunsky, Igor, CA, for an “efficient restoration of content.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A technique for restoring content is described. The technique includes receiving a specification of content to be restored to a target storage from a data source. The technique also includes determining task units to be performed to restore the specified content. Each task unit is associated with a corresponding assigned weight value. Based on the corresponding assigned weight values, the task units are distributed to different task groups. The task groups are processed in parallel with each other to concurrently perform at least a portion of the distributed task units.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-07-30 (16/943680).

Generating standby cloud versions of VM
Cohesity, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11397649) developed by Sharma, Namit, San Jose, CA, and Gupta, Vipin, Cupertino, CA, for “generating standby cloud versions of a virtual machine.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Contents of a virtual machine of a primary storage are received at a first point in time. A full snapshot of the virtual machine is stored on a secondary storage using the received contents of the virtual machine. One or more cloud storage volumes of the virtual machine are caused to be created. Contents of the full snapshot for storage on the one or more cloud storage volumes are provided from the secondary storage. Changed data of the virtual machine of the primary storage is received at a second point in time. An incremental snapshot of the virtual machine is stored using the received changed data. The one or more cloud storage volumes are updated using the incremental snapshot of the virtual machine. An image of at least one of the cloud storage volumes is caused to be created for standby deployment of another instance of the virtual machine.”

The patent application was filed on 2019-10-22 (16/660623).