Permabit Awarded Five Patents

Permabit Technology Corporation has been awarded five new patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office. These patents cover a broad range of data retention capabilities.

Highlights include:

• US Patent No. 7,478,096 broadly covers records retention in disk-based distributed storage systems.
• US Patent Nos. 7,457,800 and 7,457,813 describe and protect advances developed for Permabit’s internal file system that allow Permabit to deliver unprecedented performance and scalability in an in-line data deduplication system. These patents exemplify Permabit’s technical expertise in deduplication and their advances beyond the competition.
• US Patent No. 7,457,959 covers verifiable digital timestamps in a storage system such that while a record is stored its contents and timestamp can be proven correct and unmodified, however after the record has been deleted it is not possible to determine the previous existence or content of the record.
• US Patent No. 7,467,144 protects the use of a deduplicated content repository for web and other network application acceleration purposes, such as in the rapidly growing field of WAN acceleration.

These new patents build upon Permabit’s already extensive patent portfolio, including the use of hash-based deduplication for scalable file and object data storage, Permabit’s unique encrypted deduplication, snapshotting, and many other features of the company’s Scalable Data Reduction(TM) (SDR) technology. With these Permabit has a total of 13 patents covering diverse areas in data protection and archive, and many more filings are pending in similar areas.

"Permabit continues to lead the industry in advanced deduplication and long-term reliable storage technologies. With the current economic crisis, innovative products that deliver return on investment in months are the only products being bought today. While other vendors have slashed R&D, emerging companies like Permabit are where innovation continues to happen, and proven by these latest patents," said Jered Floyd, Chief Technology Officer, Permabit.