Overland Storage/Sphere 3D Assigned Patent

Overland Storage, Inc., a Sphere 3D Corp. subsidiary, San Diego, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,449,019) developed by Lacapra, Francesco, Sunnyvale, CA, Steele, Peter Wallace, Campbell, CA, Sartirana, Bruno, Loomis, CA, Hua, Ernest Ying Sue, Cupertino, CA, Lin, I Chung Joseph, San Jose, CA, Li, Samuel Sui-Lun, Pleasanton, CA, Diller, Nathanael John, San Francisco, CA, Ramsdell, Thomas Reynold, Palos Verdes, CA, Nguyen, Don, Tracy, CA, and Tran, Kyle Dinh, San Jose, CA, for a “peer-to-peer redundant file server system and methods.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Peer-to-peer redundant file server system and methods include clients that determine a target storage provider to contact for a particular storage transaction based on a pathname provided by the filesystem and a predetermined scheme such as a hash function applied to a portion of the pathname. Servers use the same scheme to determine where to store relevant file information so that the clients can locate the file information. The target storage provider may store the file itself and/or may store metadata that identifies one or more other storage providers where the file is stored. A file may be replicated in multiple storage providers, and the metadata may include a list of storage providers from which the clients can select, (e.g., randomly) in order to access the file.“

The patent application was filed on September 14, 2012 (13/619,368).