Acronis Assigned Patent

Acronis International GmbH, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (9,471,441) developed by Lyadvinsky, Maxim V., Moscow, Russia, Beloussov, Serguei M., Costa del Sol, SG, Miroshkin, Vladimir, Moscow, Russia, and Ruslyakov, Alexey, Moscow Region, Russia, for a “systems and methods for backup of virtual machines.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for backing up a plurality of virtual machines, the method comprising. A computer system may initiate creation of a snapshot for each of the plurality of virtual machines. The computer system may select a first virtual machine from the plurality of virtual machines based on the input/output loads for each of the plurality of virtual machines and generate a backup archive of the first virtual machine.“

The patent application was filed on June 30, 2014 (14/320,555).