Konkuh University Industrial Cooperation Assigned Patent
Data federation system and method for sociality storage service in cloud computing
By Francis Pelletier | June 19, 2015 at 2:32 pmKonkuh University Industrial Cooperation Corp., Seoul, Korea, has been assigned a patent (9,047,443) developed by Lee, Han Ku, Seoul, Korea, Yoon, Hyo Gun, Daejeon, Korea, Cui, Yun, and Kim, Myoung Jin, Seoul, Korea, for a “data federation system and method for sociality storage service in cloud computing.”
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Provided is a data federation system for a sociality storage service in cloud computing, the data federation system including an instance management unit to collect instance information from a cloud system for integrating cloud storage services provided to individuals, a service authentication unit to authenticate a state of the cloud storage services using the collected instance information, a storage synchronization unit to integrate cloud storages to collect data of the authenticated cloud storage services, and an index management unit to organize the collected data based on a state value of at least one of a file and a folder in the integrated cloud storage.“
The patent application was filed on December 20, 2012 (13/721,667).