Patents by Inventor Scott Brons

Scott Brons 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).

  • Systems and methods for taking snapshots in a deduplicated virtual file system
    Patent number: 9946605
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for taking snapshots in a deduplicated virtual file system may include (1) maintaining a deduplicated virtual file system that stores, at an original location within a non-virtual file system, at least one configuration file storing metadata for a target file and an extent map for the target file, the extent map defining how to construct the target file from deduplicated data segments in a deduplicated storage system, (2) receiving a request to take a snapshot of the target file corresponding to the configuration file, (3) copying the configuration file storing metadata for the target file and the extent map for the target file into a snapshot location within the non-virtual file system, and (4) transmitting a file reference request to the deduplicated storage system to add a file reference within the deduplicated storage system. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Veritas Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Xianbo Zhang, Haigang Wang, Shuangmin Zhang, Jeffrey Van Voorst, Weibao Wu, Sameer Kulkarni, Nilesh Joshi, Kai Li, Yun Yang, Scott Brons
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TAKING SNAPSHOTS IN A DEDUPLICATED VIRTUAL FILE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20170147446
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for taking snapshots in a deduplicated virtual file system may include (1) maintaining a deduplicated virtual file system that stores, at an original location within a non-virtual file system, at least one configuration file storing metadata for a target file and an extent map for the target file, the extent map defining how to construct the target file from deduplicated data segments in a deduplicated storage system, (2) receiving a request to take a snapshot of the target file corresponding to the configuration file, (3) copying the configuration file storing metadata for the target file and the extent map for the target file into a snapshot location within the non-virtual file system, and (4) transmitting a file reference request to the deduplicated storage system to add a file reference within the deduplicated storage system. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Xianbo Zhang, Haigang Wang, Shuangmin Zhang, Jeffrey Van Voorst, Weibao Wu, Sameer Kulkarni, Nilesh Joshi, Kai Li, Yun Yang, Scott Brons