Patents by Inventor Vasani Soam Snehal

Vasani Soam Snehal 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).

  • Access to data for virtual devices
    Patent number: 8819674
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is a method for a virtual machine to access data from a virtual device, the method including: (a) attaching the virtual device to the virtual machine with a backing store that is a virtual image of a file system conforming to a predetermined file system format, wherein: (i) file system data is stored in one or more files, (ii) the virtual image includes metadata stored apart from the file system data, which metadata corresponds to the predetermined file system format, (iii) the metadata includes one or more directory records, and (iv) the one or more directory records include information that points directly or indirectly to the file system data; (b) issuing a read request for a block of data from the file system as if stored in the predetermined file system format; (c) accessing the metadata and determining the location of the requested block of data in the file system data; and (d) retrieving the requested block of data from the file system data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: WMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Roopak Parikh, Kiran Joshi, Sirish Raghuram, Karthik Sreenivasa Murthy, Vasani Soam Snehal
  • Access to Data for Virtual Devices
    Publication number: 20100050170
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is a method for a virtual machine to access data from a virtual device, the method including: (a) attaching the virtual device to the virtual machine with a backing store that is a virtual image of a file system conforming to a predetermined file system format, wherein: (i) file system data is stored in one or more files, (ii) the virtual image includes metadata stored apart from the file system data, which metadata corresponds to the predetermined file system format, (iii) the metadata includes one or more directory records, and (iv) the one or more directory records include information that points directly or indirectly to the file system data; (b) issuing a read request for a block of data from the file system as if stored in the predetermined file system format; (c) accessing the metadata and determining the location of the requested block of data in the file system data; and (d) retrieving the requested block of data from the file system data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Roopak Parikh, Kiran Joshi, Sirish Raghuram, Karthik Sreenivasa Murthy, Vasani Soam Snehal