Patents by Inventor P. Oltean

P. Oltean has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Creating host-level application-consistent backups of virtual machines
    Publication number: 20070244938
    Abstract: A host server hosting one or more virtual machines can back up host volumes and the one or more virtual machines installed thereon in an application-consistent manner. In one implementation, a host-level requestor instructs a host-level writer to identify which virtual machines qualify for application-consistent backups. The host-level requestor then instructs the host-level writer to initiate virtual machine backups through guest-level requesters in each appropriately-configured virtual machine, wherein the virtual machines create application-consistent backups within the virtual machine volumes. The host-level requester then initiates snapshots of the server volumes on the host-level. The virtual machine-level snapshots can thus be retrieved from within the host-level snapshots of the server volumes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2006
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Michael, William Scheidel, Paul Luber, P. Oltean, Ran Kalach