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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2011
Applicants:
Shankar Balasubramanian, Bangalore, IN;
Vladimir Mandic, San Jose, CA (US);
Sriprasad Bhat Kasargod, Bellevue, WA (US);
Anand Raj, Bangalore, IN;
Inventors:
Shankar Balasubramanian, Bangalore, IN;
Vladimir Mandic, San Jose, CA (US);
Sriprasad Bhat Kasargod, Bellevue, WA (US);
Anand Raj, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for protecting data. In some embodiments, this includes taking a snapshot of a physical volume with a native snapshot program, reading the snapshot block by block, creating a blank virtual container on a deduplicated virtual storage device, and populating the blank virtual container block by block based on reading the snapshot.