SonicWALL (Dell) Assigned Patent

SonicWALL, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,676,759) developed by four co-inventors for a “continuous backup using real time delta storage.”

The co-inventors are William Dunn, Cupertino, CA, Shunhui Zhu, San Jose, CA, Matthew W. Cotton, Santa Clara, CA, and Boris Yanovsky, Saratoga, CA.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A continuous data backup using real time delta storage has been presented. A backup appliance receives a backup request from a backup agent running on a computing machine to back up data on the computing machine. The computing machine is communicatively coupled to the backup appliance. Then the backup appliance performs block-based real-time backup of the data on the computing machine. The backup appliance stores backup data of the computing machine in a computer-readable storage device in the backup appliance.”

The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2009 (12/571,250)