Acronis Assigned Three Patents

Anti-malware protection using volume filters
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,713,361) developed by Strogov, Vladimir, Moscow, Russia, Levchenko, Vyacheslav, St. Petersburg, Russia, Stupak, Anatoly, Protasov, Stanislav, Shmulevich, Mark, Moscow, Russia, and Beloussov, Serguei, Costa Del Sol, Singapore, for an “anti-malware protection using volume filters.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosed are systems and methods for protecting a computer system from ransomware and malware by copying and backing up files using a volume filter. A storage stack of the computer system includes a file protector driver and a volume filter driver. The file protector driver monitors for potentially dangerous actions to the system’s files. The volume filter driver tracks any requested changes to files on a block level, and makes backup copies of the modified blocks when the blocks change on a block level of the storage device.”

The patent application was filed on June 12, 2017 (15/619,609).

Backing up social network data
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,712,951) developed by Denischenko, Nikolay, Grebennikov, Nikolay, Shmulevich, Mark, Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, and Beloussov, Serguei M., Costa Del Sol, Singapore, for “system and method for backing up social network data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosed are methods, systems and computer program products for backing up user data from a social network account. An exemplary general method includes the steps of obtaining access to a user account on a social network, by a social network application, determining, by the social network application, one or more restrictions on external requests for data imposed by the social network, generating, by a backup agent in communication with the social network application, an algorithm for requesting data from the user account based upon the one or more restrictions on external requests for data, requesting user data from the user account, by the social network application, using the algorithm, receiving the user data from the user account, by the social network application, transmitting the received user data from the social network application to the backup agent, and archiving the received user data, by the backup agent.”

The patent application was filed on September 6, 2017 (15/696,612).

Agentless security of virtual machines using network interface controller
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,701,104) developed by Malkov, Konstantin, Middletown, NJ, and Mishev, Ilya, Penza, Russia, for an “agentless security of virtual machines using a network interface controller.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An agentless intrusion detection and prevention digital processing system and environment, or virtual firewall is disclosed. The agentless, virtual firewall monitors and controls digital data communications between a digital communications network and one or more virtual digital processing machines. The virtual digital processing machines, or virtual machines (VMs), are operative on a host digital processor under the supervision of a hypervisor software module. The agentless, virtual firewall is implemented as part of a virtual switch filtering extension to an extensible virtual switch running in a kernel mode as part of the hypervisor software module.”

The patent application was filed on August 18, 2016 (15/240,174).