Philips North America Assigned Patent

Philips North America LLC, Cambridge, MA, has been assigned a patent (11644995) developed by Runcie, George, Santa Barbara, CA, and Rodrigues, Derek, Ojai, CA, for “application and system settings configuration filtering during physical to virtual hard disk conversion.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “During conversion and transfer of data from a physical machine to a virtual hard disk, a transmuter generates a catalog of contents of the physical machine. Catalog entries are compared to a set of alterations templates which alter matching data. The altered data is then stored in the virtual hard disk. Alterations templates may include filters that exclude unwanted or duplicated catalog entries, mapping filters that transfer source catalog entries to target locations on the virtual hard disk, and add-on filters that add additional data or location references to catalog entries. The disclosed process allows modifications to be made in a systematic way during data transfer.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-08-17 (17/404997).