Patents by Inventor Feng OU

Feng OU 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).

  • Partition level restore
    Patent number: 10990482
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method, apparatus, and system for partition level restore, the operations comprising: determining a restoration source virtual machine disk image and a restoration target virtual machine disk image; determining partition information for the restoration source and target virtual machine disk images; determining whether the partition information for the restoration source virtual machine disk image matches the partition information for the restoration target virtual machine disk image; and in response to determining that the partition information for the restoration source virtual machine disk image matches the partition information for the restoration target virtual machine disk image, copying all data from a partition to be restored on the restoration source virtual machine disk image to a corresponding partition on the restoration target virtual machine disk image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Feng Ou, Dening Xu, Qingxiao Zheng
  • Method, device and computer readable medium for restoring files
    Patent number: 10936431
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, device and computer readable medium for restoring files. The method described herein comprises: at a client, in response to receiving an instruction for restoring a set of files on a virtual machine from a backup server, obtaining a backup of a set of files from the backup server; transmitting information about the backup and a file downloading application to the virtual machine; causing the file downloading application to be executed on the virtual machine by transmitting an instruction for executing the file downloading application to the virtual machine, such that the virtual machine downloads the backup from the client based on the information about the backup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Jie Liu, Ningping Gou, Ying Li, Dening Xu, Feng Ou
  • Agent-less disk partition backup
    Patent number: 10810090
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method, apparatus, and system for performing proxy-based partition backup in a virtualized environment, the operations comprising: mounting a backup source virtual machine disk to a backup proxy; obtaining, at the backup proxy, partition information for a backup source partition on the backup source virtual machine disk; and reading, by the backup proxy, partition data of the backup source partition based on the partition information and backing up the partition data to a data store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Dening Xu, Feng Ou, Qingxiao Zheng
  • METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR RESTORING FILES
    Publication number: 20200133788
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, device and computer readable medium for restoring files. The method described herein comprises: at a client, in response to receiving an instruction for restoring a set of files on a virtual machine from a backup server, obtaining a backup of a set of files from the backup server; transmitting information about the backup and a file downloading application to the virtual machine; causing the file downloading application to be executed on the virtual machine by transmitting an instruction for executing the file downloading application to the virtual machine, such that the virtual machine downloads the backup from the client based on the information about the backup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Jie Liu, Ningping Gou, Ying Li, Dening Xu, Feng Ou
  • AGENT-LESS DISK PARTITION BACKUP
    Publication number: 20200019473
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method, apparatus, and system for performing proxy-based partition backup in a virtualized environment, the operations comprising: mounting a backup source virtual machine disk to a backup proxy; obtaining, at the backup proxy, partition information for a backup source partition on the backup source virtual machine disk; and reading, by the backup proxy, partition data of the backup source partition based on the partition information and backing up the partition data to a data store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Dening XU, Feng OU, Qingxiao ZHENG
  • PARTITION LEVEL RESTORE
    Publication number: 20200012567
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method, apparatus, and system for partition level restore, the operations comprising: determining a restoration source virtual machine disk image and a restoration target virtual machine disk image; determining partition information for the restoration source and target virtual machine disk images; determining whether the partition information for the restoration source virtual machine disk image matches the partition information for the restoration target virtual machine disk image; and in response to determining that the partition information for the restoration source virtual machine disk image matches the partition information for the restoration target virtual machine disk image, copying all data from a partition to be restored on the restoration source virtual machine disk image to a corresponding partition on the restoration target virtual machine disk image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Feng OU, Dening XU, Qingxiao ZHENG