US Patent Issued to EMC IP Holding on May 20 for "Fast disaster recovery in the cloud for virtual machines with significant media content" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,275, issued on May 20, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Fast disaster recovery in the cloud for virtual machines with significant media content" was invented by Boris Shpilyuck (Ashdod, Israel), Saar Cohen (Moshav Mishmeret, Israel) and Yossi Matatov (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes processing a file of a VM to create a decreased quality file that is a version of the file, storing the decreased quality file at a recovery site along with metadata indicating a file type and path name for the decreased quality file, in response to a disaster recovery request, creating...