Google Assigned Patent

Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,836,547) developed by Dake He, ONT, Canada, and Vadim Sheinin, Yorktown Heights, NY, for “server side storage and de-duplication.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for storing data on a server device is disclosed. The method includes receiving a plurality of encoded data blocks from a plurality of client devices, wherein the plurality of encoded data blocks are encoded using a distributed encoding technique, decoding the plurality of encoded data blocks using at least one of a plurality of previously decoded data blocks, and storing the decoded plurality of data blocks using a de-duplication technique.”

The patent application was filed on March 5, 2012 (13/412,200).