Acronis Assigned Seven Patents

Service level agreement based data storage and verification
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,554,753) developed by Tormasov, Alexander, Protasov, Stanislav S., Moscow, Russia, Beloussov, Serguei M., Costa Del Sol, Singapore, and Shmulevich, Mark, Moscow, Russia, for “system and method for service level agreement based data storage and verification.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method is provided for service level agreement, (SLA) based data storage and verification. According to one exemplary aspect, a method includes storing in electronic memory SLAs associated with a user of client devices and receiving from one of the user a request to verify data previously stored on a remote storage device. Furthermore, the method includes receiving from the client device, for example, a hash value of the data relating to the file and also receiving from a remote storage computer, a hash value created by the remote storage computer for the data that was previously stored on the remote storage computer. Moreover, a processor compares the received hash value and the hash value created by the remote storage computer and transmits a confirmation signal to the client device verifying integrity of the file if the processor determines that the respective hash values match.”

The patent application was filed on July 6, 2017 (15/642,479).

Backing up virtual disk changes
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,552,266) developed by Kogtev, Dmitri, Shulga, Victor, Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, Beloussov, Serguei M., Costa Del Sol, Singapore, and Lyadvinsky, Maxim V., Moscow, Russia, for a “backing up virtual disk changes.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method, computer program product, computing system, and system for backing up changed sectors of a virtual disk are described. A method may include determining changed file regions of the virtual disk, the changed file regions being file regions of the virtual disk that changed since a last backup. The method may further include determining changed blocks of the virtual disk, the changed blocks of the virtual disk being blocks of the virtual disk that lie, at least in part, in the changed file regions. The method may also include determining changed sectors for the changed blocks of the virtual disk based upon, at least in part, at least one of: a region offset, a block offset, sector size, and a count of sectors in an associated block. Additionally, the method may include backing up the changed sectors of the virtual disk.”

The patent application was filed on September 28, 2015 (14/867,295).

Optimization of packetized data transmission in TCP-based networks
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,536,533) developed by Korotaev, Kirill, Protassov, Stanislav S., Moscow, Russia, and Beloussov, Serguei, Singapore, Singapore, for an “optimization of packetized data transmission in TCP-based networks.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method for optimization of a standard TCP connection. The optimization is based on load distributions by a system kernel. A proposed architecture includes an application running a proxy-process. The application is connected locally to an assigned port, (e.g., port 9000). A number of connections N, (for example 4) is established to a proxy server located on the cloud storage. Thus, the application is not directly connected to a front end server. Instead, it is connected to the proxy process via a local port. The proxy process transfers redistributed data streams to the proxy server on the cloud, which combines N data streams into one and passes it to the front end server residing on the cloud.”

The patent application was filed on August 15, 2016 (15/236,539).

Disaster recovery using cloud-based data center
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,528,433) developed by Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, Beloussov, Serguei M, Costa Del Sol, Singapore, Shmulevich, Mark, Kochegarov, Mikhail, and Danilov, Alexey, Moscow, Russia, for “systems and methods for disaster recovery using a cloud-based data center.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A cloud-based disaster recovery service solution is provided. The disaster recovery provides cloud-based backup services that maintain local and off-site backups that may be activated on demand for backup purposes, or for full-site disaster recovery. The cloud-based data center may be configured to perform this backup and recovery process in a secure way, while protecting individual client environments from each other, and protecting the backup and recovery operations environment from the individual client environments.”

The patent application was filed on April 3, 2017 (15/477,320).

Managing services and licenses using blockchain network
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,523,526) developed by Dementev, Denis, Lysenko, Victor, Shmulevich, Mark, Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, and Beloussov, Serguei, Singapore, Singapore, for “system and method for managing services and licenses using a blockchain network.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method provided for managing services and licenses using blockchain technology. An exemplary method includes storing an operator license relating to an operator node associated with a vendor, where the operator license indicates transactional authority of the operator node. Moreover, the method includes executing a transaction relating to a service and/or a license provided to client device, transmitting data relating to the operator license to a blockchain network in which a node in the blockchain network adds the data relating to the operator license as one or more blocks in an existing blockchain, and replicating the transaction to at least one additional node in the blockchain network. As a result, the existing blockchain can be used to verify the transaction authority of the operator node and the transaction between the client device and the operator node.”

The patent application was filed on December 28, 2016 (15/392,728).

Recovery of virtual machine while running virtual machine from backup archive
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,514,989) developed by Borodin, Alexey, Semyonov, Vasily, Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, Beloussov, Serguei M., Costa Del Sol, Singapore, and Lyadvinsky, Maxim V., Moscow, Russia, for “recovery of a virtual machine while running the virtual machine from a backup archive.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method, computer program product, computing system, and system for recovering a virtual machine while running the virtual machine from a backup archive are described. The method may include emulating the virtual machine in preparation for finalizing the recovery of the virtual machine. The method may include creating a snapshot of the emulated virtual machine to redirect changes to the emulated virtual machine to a second delta file in the production datastore. The method may include cloning an original base virtual disk, including the first delta file, to the production datastore to create a cloned base virtual disk. The method may include patching a virtual disk file descriptor of the second delta file of the emulated virtual machine. The patching operation may include replacing links to the original base virtual disk of the emulated virtual machine, including the first delta file, with links to the cloned base virtual disk.”

The patent application was filed on September 8, 2016 (15/259,521).

Automatic data backup based on multi-factor environment monitoring
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,509,704) developed by Makhov, Alexey, Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, and Beloussov, Serguei M., Singapore, Singapore, and Polevoy, Andrey, Khimki, Russia, for “system and method for automatic data backup based on multi-factor environment monitoring.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosed are systems, methods and computer program products for automatic data backup based on multi-factor environment monitoring. An example method includes monitoring an occurrence of one or more danger events, detecting when a danger event occurs or about to occur, determining a danger level of the detected danger event, determining an importance level of each of a plurality of backup data items, determining a backup time for performing backup of the backup data items based on the determined danger level of detected danger event, determining a backup order of the plurality of backup data items based on the determined importance level of the backup data items, selecting a backup storage for the backup data items and performing a backup of the plurality of backup data items to the selected backup storage.”

The patent application was filed on August 24, 2016 (15/245,359).