Scality Assigned Patent

Scality, S.A., Paris, France, has been assigned a patent (9,311,135) developed by Regni, Giorgio, Paris, France, Rancurel, Vianney, La Frette sur Seine, France, Tauch, Alain, Montrouge, France, Artuso, Benoit, Maisons Lafitte, France, Gramain, Jonathan, Paris, France, and Demiddelaer, Bertrand, Lavallois-Perret, France, for a “method for generating universal objects identifiers in distributed multi-purpose storage systems.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A computer implemented method and system for generating secure universal object identifiers on a multipurpose storage system is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a system comprises a client system in communication with a network. An application server is in communication with the network. A storage cluster is in communication with the network. The storage cluster has a plurality of storage nodes. The client system stores a data object via the application server. The application server generates an object identifier assigned to the data object. The application server stores the data object on a storage node of the plurality of storage nodes. The data object is moved to another application server without moving contents of the data object in the storage cluster.“

The patent application was filed on January 18, 2011 (13/008,390).