Commvault Assigned Seventeen Patents

Fast deduplication data verification
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11422991) developed by Agrawal, Saurabh, Ocean, NJ, and Vijayan, Manoj Kumar, Marlboro, NJ, for a “fast deduplication data verification.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An information management system provides a data deduplication system that uses a primary table, a deduplication chunk table, and a chunk integrity table to ensure that a referenced deduplicated data block is only verified once during the data verification of a backup or other replication operation. The data deduplication system may reduce the computational and storage overhead associated with traditional data verification processes. The primary table, the deduplication chunk table, and the chunk integrity table, all of which may be stored in a deduplication database, can also ensure synchronization between the deduplication database and secondary storage devices.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-02-26 (16/802374).

Live browsing and private writable environments based on snapshots and/or backup copies provided by iSCSI server
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11422732) developed by Gutta, Sunil Kumar, Hyderabad, India, and Agrawal, Vijay H., Pune, India, for “live browsing and private writable environments based on snapshots and/or backup copies provided by an iSCSI server.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An illustrative ISCSI server computing device provides user computing devices with ‘private writable snapshots’ of a desired volume of data and/or further provides ‘private writable backup copies.’ The ISCSI service is provided without invoking snapshot limits imposed by storage arrays and further without specialized backup software and pseudo-disk drivers installed on the user computing devices. A user can browse as well as edit personal versions of any number and/or versions of block-level backup copies—the ‘private writable backup copies.’ Likewise, a user can browse and edit personal versions of any number of snapshots of one or more versions of one or more desired data volumes—the ‘private writable snapshots.’ A user can have any number of co-existing private writable snapshots and private writable backup copies. Sparse files, extent-files, software snapshots, and/or media agents co-residing on the ISCSI server are used in the illustrative embodiments.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-06-25 (16/912184).

Platform-agnostic containerized application data protection
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11422900) developed by Bhavanarushi, Shankarbabu, Neptune, NJ, Mitkar, Amit, Manalapan, NJ, Degaonkar, Sumedh Pramod, Surrey, CA, and Kumar, Vikash, Edison, NJ, for a “platform-agnostic containerized application data protection.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Certain embodiments described herein relate to an improved information management system that can perform platform-agnostic containerized application data protection. In one embodiment, the information management system receives a user’s credentials to a container orchestrator along with an indication of whether or not to deploy a backup pod. Using the user credentials, the information management system accesses the container orchestrator, and if the user has requested deployment of a backup pod on the user’s cluster, the information management system may do so using a backup pod specification and allow the backup pod to perform data protection operations, using a platform-agnostic interface (e.g., container storage interface), for application data accessible by the user applications on the user’s pod on the user’s cluster. Alternatively, if the user has not requested deployment of a backup pod, the information management system may perform data protection operations using provider-specific interface.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-09-29 (17/037422).

Targeted snapshot based on VM location
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11416280) developed by Sancheti, Ashwin Gautamchand, Marlboro, NJ, and Dornemann, Henry Wallace, Eatontown, NJ, for a “targeted snapshot based on virtual machine location.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A data storage environment can include one or more virtual machines instantiated on a host computing device. Based on physical location data of the one or more virtual machines received from the host computing device, a storage manager can control the performance of a secondary copy operation on one or more storage units that store virtual machine data associated with the one or more virtual machines and/or the performance of a secondary copy operation on the one or more virtual machines.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-09-18 (17/025238).

Storage management for holistic protection and migration of serverless applications across multi-cloud computing environments
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11366723) developed by Bansod, Ketan, Morganville, NJ, Ahn, Jun H., Manalapan, NJ, and Ramohalli Gopala Rao, Girish, Eatontown, NJ, for a “data storage management system for holistic protection and migration of serverless applications across multi-cloud computing environments.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present inventors devised a holistic approach for protecting serverless applications in single-cloud, multi-zone, multi-cloud, and/or non-cloud data center computing environments. An illustrative data storage management system discovers application assets, relationships, and interoperability dependencies and creates an ‘application entity’ that references the various assets. Protection preferences apply to the application entity as a whole. An orchestration function in the system coordinates storage management operations (e.g., backup, replication, live synchronization, etc.) in a suitable order of operations gleaned from asset dependencies, if any. A set of copies of the application’s discovered assets are generated in coordinated fashion and represent a point-in-time copy of the application. The point-in-time copy can be restored and/or migrated to other computing services by the data storage management system. The orchestration function coordinates restore and migration operations, including any cloud-to-cloud or cloud-to/from-non-cloud conversions that might be necessary to activate the application in a different computing environment.”

The patent application was filed on 2019-12-10 (16/709668).

File indexing for VM backups based on using live browse features
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11347707) developed by Dornemann, Henry Wallace, Eatontown, NJ, Nagrale, Ajay Venkat, Marlboro, NJ, and Mitkar, Amit, Manalapan, NJ, for a “file indexing for virtual machine backups based on using live browse features.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An illustrative file indexing approach enhances what was previously possible with hypervisor-free live browsing of virtual machine (VM) block-level backup copies. Capabilities are described for indexing files discovered in VM block-level backup copies, including indexing of directory structures and file content. The illustrative file indexing functionality activates a live-browse session to discover files present within VM block-level backup copies and indexes file s and directory structures as created by an original source VM, resulting in an illustrative file index. The illustrative file indexing functionality optionally indexes file contents within VM block-level backup copies, resulting in an illustrative content index. The file index and content index are retained in persistent data structure(s) stored apart from the VM block-level backup copies. The indexes are searchable without mounting or live-browsing the VM block-level backup copies. In some embodiments the file index and the content index are consolidated.”

The patent application was filed on 2019-01-22 (16/253643).

Management database long-term archiving to recovery manager
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11334442) developed by Nara, Prasad, Manalapan, NJ, for a “management database long-term archiving to a recovery manager.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage manager for an information management system determines whether one or more predetermined conditions have been met for transferring metadata of previously performed backup jobs stored in a first management database. A backup job may correspond to a backup operation of a primary storage device of a first client computing device. In response to a determination that one or more of the predetermined conditions have been met, the storage manager may transfer metadata for a second plurality of backup jobs to a second management database of a recovery manager. The recovery manager may receive a request to restore data to the primary storage device of the first client computing device based on the metadata of the second plurality of backup jobs. A media agent managed by the recovery manager may then restore the requested data to the primary storage device of the first client computing device.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-03-10 (16/814718).

Ensuring integrity of storage volumes used in block-level live synchronization operations in storage management
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (11327663) developed by Bhagi, Sri Karthik, Morganville, NJ, Futey, Jon-Paul, Jackson, NJ, and Gutta, Sunil Kumar, Hyderabad, India, for “ensuring the integrity of data storage volumes used in block-level live synchronization operations in a data storage management system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent an