NTT Assigned Patent

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (12026067) developed by Syu; I, Kimura; Nobuhiro, and Mihara; Kotaro, Musashino, Japan, for “backup restoration method and backup restoration device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present invention aims to reduce the amount of backup to be transferred, and reduce the recovery time, in the case of a server device built in a virtual environment. A VM 10 connects a plurality of volumes 21 and 22, starts up software installed on the volume 21 from the volume 21, stores DB data in the volume 22, and acquires snapshots of the volumes 21 and 22 at different intervals for each, thereby backing up the images 31 and 32.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-01-17 (17/427169).