Patents by Inventor Wanru Liu

Wanru Liu 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).

  • Virtual machine backup and restoration
    Patent number: 11573727
    Abstract: Reversing deletion of a virtual machine including managing, by a storage system, a repository of virtual machine snapshots on a datastore; receiving, by the storage system, a request to recover a deleted virtual machine from the datastore; accessing, by the storage system, the repository of virtual machine snapshots on the datastore to generate a list of deleted virtual machines associated with virtual machine snapshots in the repository of virtual machine snapshots; receiving, by the storage system, a selection of one of the deleted virtual machines in the list of deleted virtual machines; and recovering, by the storage system, the selected deleted virtual machine using a virtual machine snapshot for the selected deleted virtual machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: Vivekkumar Patel, Neale Genereux, Wanru Liu, Marten Heidemeyer, John Colgrove
  • Reversing deletion of a virtual machine
    Patent number: 10908835
    Abstract: Reversing deletion of a virtual machine including managing, by a storage system, a repository of virtual machine snapshots on a datastore; receiving, by the storage system, a request to recover a deleted virtual machine from the datastore; accessing, by the storage system, the repository of virtual machine snapshots on the datastore to generate a list of deleted virtual machines associated with virtual machine snapshots in the repository of virtual machine snapshots; receiving, by the storage system, a selection of one of the deleted virtual machines in the list of deleted virtual machines; and recovering, by the storage system, the selected deleted virtual machine using a virtual machine snapshot for the selected deleted virtual machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: Vivekkumar Patel, Neale Genereux, Wanru Liu, Marten Heidemeyer, John Colgrove