US Patent Issued to EMC IP Holding on Sept. 16 for "System and a method for generating live VM images with an extended recovery range" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,152, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"System and a method for generating live VM images with an extended recovery range" was invented by Nadav Azaria (Meitar, Israel), Jehuda Shemer (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Saar Cohen (Mishmeret, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes receiving, at an IO journal, a new entry that identifies a respective disk location L, and data X written at that disk location L, and determining whether a location specified in an oldest entry of the IO journal is specified in any other entries in the IO journal. When the location specified in t...