Overland Storage/Sphere3D Assigned Patent

Overland Storage, Inc., a Sphere3D subsidiary, San Diego, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,671,965) developed by Desimone, Dennis, Reider, Michael H., Escondido, CA, Geist, Kenneth, San Diego, CA, and Gonzalez, Victoria, Escondido, CA , for a “data protection with multiple site replication.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods for replicating data from a first site to a second site remote from said first site are described. An embodiment includes storing compressed data on a hard disk appliance, reading said data without decompressing said data, sending said data over a wide-area-network (WAN) in a compressed state, and storing said data on a second hard disk appliance remote from said first hard disk appliance in its compressed state without performing an additional compression operation.“

The patent application was filed on November 24, 2014 (14/551,543).