Acronis International Assigned Five Patents

Automated dynamic penetration testing on active backup system
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (12298863) developed by Wuest; Candid, Bassersdorf, Switzerland, Gysel; Philipp, Bern, Switzerland, Bell; Serg, and Protasov; Stanislav, Singapore, Singapore, for “system and method for automated dynamic penetration testing on active backup system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods for verifying a production system automatically by testing a backup copy of the production system. The system comprises a backup transporter configured to copy or move a set of backup files from the backup generated of the production system and replicate the set of files on a testing computer, a mounting module configured to instantiate a copy of the production system on the testing computer, and a testing module configured to apply a set of automatic pre-defined tests to the application on the testing computer to analyze the application for vulnerabilities and defects, and generate a list of results of execution of each of the pre-defined tests on the testing computer, the list of results indicative of the vulnerabilities and defects.”

The patent application was filed on 2023-03-30 (18/193316).

Restoring clean files based on timestamps
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (12287878) developed by Gajjar; Hiten, Reddy; Prabhuraj, Singapore, Singapore, Bell; Serg, Costa del Sol, Singapore, and Protasov; Stanislav, Singapore, Singapore, for “systems and methods for restoring clean files based on timestamps.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Disclosed herein are systems and method for restoring files from a backup, the method including: retrieving a time indicator from a time server associated with a backup server; synchronizing time between the backup server and a computing device performing a backup, based on the time indicator; performing the backup of files from the computing device to the backup server, wherein a malicious process modifies at least one file being backed up at an incident time during the backup and performs an attempt to change a time of the computing device such that a modification timestamp of the at least one file precedes the incident time; blocking the attempt to change the time of the computing device; subsequent to completing the backup, detecting the malicious process infecting the computing device; and performing a restoration of the backup on the computing device.”

The patent application was filed on 2023-02-07 (18/165439).

Using GenAI to simplify backup software interactions
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (12271275) developed by Wuest; Candid, Bassersdorf, Switzerland, Bell; Serg, Costa del Sol, Singapore, and Protasov; Stanislav, Singapore, Singapore, for “systems and methods of using Generative AI to simplify backup software interactions.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods for simplified software backup. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) based on a large language model (LLM) is utilized to determine a backup restore operation for a backup request for a target system using a metadata tracked during a previous backup of the target system, and execute the backup restore operation to satisfy the backup request.”

The patent application was filed on 2023-06-29 (18/344320).

Exact restoration of computing system to state prior to infection
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (12242609) developed by Strogov; Vladimir, Ulasen; Sergey, Beloussov; Serguei, and Protasov; Stanislav, Singapore, Singapore, for an “exact restoration of a computing system to the state prior to infection.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present disclosure relates to a system and method for creating a backup and restoring the exact clean system state prior to malware detection. The system includes a security system, in communication with one or more applications of a computing system, and a backup unit. The security system detects malware during execution of the applications or events based on a memory dump analysis. The backup unit creates a backup copy of the system state corresponding to each event, labels each copy and creates an index. When the security system detects presence of the malware at a particular event, the backup system parses the index, and with use of the labels, retrieves the exact backup copy that belongs to the event preceding the other event that caused the malware attack.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-03-29 (17/656940).

Updating select files in image backup
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (12216612) developed by Sergeev; Alexey, Strogov; Vladimir, Moscow, Russia, Beloussov; Serguei, Costa del Sol, Singapore, and Protasov; Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, for “systems and methods for updating select files in an image backup.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Disclosed herein are systems and methods for updating select files in an image backup. In an exemplary aspect, a method comprises performing an image backup of a storage device comprising a plurality of files. The method comprises selecting a file of the plurality of files based on file selection rules and subsequent to the image backup, detecting that the file has exited a full consistency state. The method comprises monitoring the file to detect a return to the full consistency state. In response to detecting that the file has returned to the full consistency state, the method comprises identifying a physical address of at least one sector comprising the file on the storage device, and updating a version of the file previously captured in the image backup with a version of the file after returning to the full consistency state.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-12-14 (17/120572).