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Patent No.:

US 8589913 B1

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Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013

Filed:

Mar. 24, 2010
Applicants:

Alexei Jelvis, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Ilia Langouev, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Ping LU, Mountain View, CA (US);

Aleksey Vasilyevich Pershin, Fremont, CA (US);

Erik Weathers, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Alexei Jelvis, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Ilia Langouev, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Ping Lu, Mountain View, CA (US);

Aleksey Vasilyevich Pershin, Fremont, CA (US);

Erik Weathers, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

VMware, Inc., Palo alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 9/45 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

One embodiment is a method of installing a block-level write tracking driver in a Microsoft Windows™ operating system so that no reboot of the system is need, another embodiment is a method of installing a block-level write tracking driver in a Linux operating system so that no reboot of the system is needed, and still another embodiment is a method of tracking block-level writes to snapshots under newer Microsoft Windows™ operating systems.


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