Falconstor Assigned Patent

Falconstor, Inc., Austin, TX, has been assigned a patent (12026143) developed by Delsman; Mark, Monte Sereno, CA, and Wu; Hsin-Hui, Jericho, NY, for a “virtual storage container for data storage and archiving.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of storing data, comprises extracting data from a first storage of a storage system; containerizing the data to form a container image, the container image being self-contained and configured to be moved and stored as a unit; and storing the container image in at least one second storage different from the first storage. The data may be deduplicated data and containerizing may be by an OCI-compliant process, such as Dockerizing. A system and a non-transitory storage medium are also disclosed. A method of storing data also comprises receiving, by a storage system, a container image, the container image being self-contained and including metadata and a data file containing data. The container image is configured to be moved and stored as a unit and is received from a second system separate from the storage system, via a network. The container image is stored by the storage system.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-02-26 (17/187165).