Patents by Inventor Dinesh Haridas

Dinesh Haridas 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).

  • Patent number: 9081732
    Abstract: Described is the backup and/or restore of virtual disks In general, metadata is backed up for restoring a virtual disk. To restore the disk, a physical disk is created, with the virtual disk the created on a partition of the physical disk. Backup and restore is described for nested virtual disks, including for block level restore. Further described is backing up of critical virtual disks and their containers, and virtual disk backup with respect to basic disks and dynamic volumes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Abhinav Srivastava, Ran Kalach, Jingbo Wu, Dinesh Haridas
  • Publication number: 20120159240
    Abstract: Described is the backup and/or restore of virtual disks In general, metadata is backed up for restoring a virtual disk. To restore the disk, a physical disk is created, with the virtual disk the created on a partition of the physical disk. Backup and restore is described for nested virtual disks, including for block level restore. Further described is backing up of critical virtual disks and their containers, and virtual disk backup with respect to basic disks and dynamic volumes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Abhinav Srivastava, Ran Kalach, Jingbo Wu, Dinesh Haridas
  • Patent number: 8150801
    Abstract: Described is the backup and/or restore of virtual disks In general, metadata is backed up for restoring a virtual disk. To restore the disk, a physical disk is created, with the virtual disk the created on a partition of the physical disk. Backup and restore is described for nested virtual disks, including for block level restore. Further described is backing up of critical virtual disks and their containers, and virtual disk backup with respect to basic disks and dynamic volumes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Abhinav Srivastava, Ran Kalach, Jingbo Wu, Dinesh Haridas
  • Publication number: 20100049750
    Abstract: Described is the backup and/or restore of virtual disks In general, metadata is backed up for restoring a virtual disk. To restore the disk, a physical disk is created, with the virtual disk the created on a partition of the physical disk. Backup and restore is described for nested virtual disks, including for block level restore. Further described is backing up of critical virtual disks and their containers, and virtual disk backup with respect to basic disks and dynamic volumes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Abhinav Srivastava, Ran Kalach, Jingbo Wu, Dinesh Haridas