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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020

Filed:

Jul. 18, 2017
Applicant:

Falconstor, Inc., Melville, NY (US);

Inventor:

Wai Lam, Jericho, NY (US);

Assignee:

FALCONSTOR, INC., Austin, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 16/174 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 16/137 (2019.01); G06F 16/174 (2019.01);
Abstract

In an example of an embodiment of the invention, a repeating pattern is identified within stored data comprising a plurality of data files, each data file comprising at least a header section and a data section stored in an unknown format. At least one occurrence of the repeating pattern is identified as a header section of a respective data file, and a data section of the respective data file is identified based, at least in part, on a location of the at least one occurrence of the repeating pattern. The identified data section of the respective data file is backed up. Systems are also disclosed.


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