Patents by Inventor Trevor John THOMPSON

Trevor John THOMPSON 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).

  • Incremental backups using retired snapshots
    Patent number: 9772907
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing backups to a storage device are provided. For virtual disks of a virtual machine, snapshots are used to backup data periodically to a storage device. A disk virtualization layer “retires” data blocks associated with a snapshot, while retaining a list of block addresses, for comparison in future backup operations. The retired snapshot can be compared against future snapshots to generate incremental backups without occupying storage space with data blocks that have already been copied to another storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Scott Christopher, Trevor John Thompson
  • Incremental backups using retired snapshots
    Patent number: 9514002
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing backups to a storage device are provided. For virtual disks of a virtual machine, snapshots are used to backup data periodically to a storage device. A disk virtualization layer “retires” data blocks associated with a snapshot, while retaining a list of block addresses, for comparison in future backup operations. The retired snapshot can be compared against future snapshots to generate incremental backups without occupying storage space with data blocks that have already been copied to another storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Scott Christopher, Trevor John Thompson
  • INCREMENTAL BACKUPS USING RETIRED SNAPSHOTS
    Publication number: 20150081994
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing backups to a storage device are provided. For virtual disks of a virtual machine, snapshots are used to backup data periodically to a storage device. A disk virtualization layer “retires” data blocks associated with a snapshot, while retaining a list of block addresses, for comparison in future backup operations. The retired snapshot can be compared against future snapshots to generate incremental backups without occupying storage space with data blocks that have already been copied to another storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: VMware,Inc
    Inventors: Kevin Scott CHRISTOPHER, Trevor John THOMPSON
  • INCREMENTAL BACKUPS USING RETIRED SNAPSHOTS
    Publication number: 20150081993
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing backups to a storage device are provided. For virtual disks of a virtual machine, snapshots are used to backup data periodically to a storage device. A disk virtualization layer “retires” data blocks associated with a snapshot, while retaining a list of block addresses, for comparison in future backup operations. The retired snapshot can be compared against future snapshots to generate incremental backups without occupying storage space with data blocks that have already been copied to another storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Scott CHRISTOPHER, Trevor John THOMPSON