US 11,656,769 B2
Autonomous data protection
Owen Martin, Hopedale, MA (US); and Jeffrey Wilson, Franklin, MA (US)
Assigned to EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US)
Filed by EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US)
Filed on Jul. 8, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/923,376.
Prior Publication US 2022/0011950 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/78 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 3/0623 (2013.01) [G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 21/78 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising a memory and at least one processor configured to:
receive an input/output (IO) stream for a storage device;
identify one or more events having a change rate greater than a threshold and corresponding to the IO stream; and
offload at least one of the one or more events to a remote storage based on a capacity of memory allocated to store at least one snapshot of the storage device that include at least one of the one or more events.