Patent ID: 9311003
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing one or more programs that are configured, when executed, to cause one or more processors to perform a method of exposing proprietary data to a hypervisor as native hypervisor data, the method comprising: identifying a proprietary disk file having a proprietary file format; creating a plugin file corresponding to the proprietary disk file, the hypervisor falsely recognizing the plugin file to be a native hypervisor disk file, the plugin file having a plugin file format which is different from a native hypervisor disk file format; intercepting read requests directed to the plugin file; and responding to each of the read requests with data gathered from at least one of the plugin file and the proprietary disk file based on a determination of where the requested data is stored, the data structured to cause the data to appear to be gathered from a native hypervisor disk file due to being formatted in the native hypervisor disk file format.