Cleversafe Granted Five U.S. Patents

Cleversafe Inc. has been issued five patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), helping Cleversafe build its portfolio around information dispersal.

To date, Cleversafe has five issued patents, two allowed patent applications and, as of April 11, 2011, 65 published pending U.S. patent applications. Additionally, the company has over one dozen foreign pending patent applications, and continues to file more U.S. and foreign patent applications, making it one of the most patenting U.S. companies per employee.

Cleversafe commercializes dispersed storage systems. Its proprietary technology defies conventional storage pitfalls by using algorithms to divide data into slices and disperses them, via secure network connections, to one or more multiple storage nodes on a dsNet system. Cleversafe’s proprietary technology is the subject of its patent portfolio and is what enables Cleversafe to deliver cost-effective, large-scale storage for petabytes of digital content.

Cleversafe’s five issued U.S. patents include:

• U.S. patent number 7,904,475, issued March 8, 2011, and entitled, Virtualized Storage Vaults on a Dispersed Data Storage Network
• U.S. patent number 7,574,579, issued Oct. 16, 2010 and entitled, Metadata Management System for an Information Dispersed Storage System
• U.S. patent number 7,574,570, issued Aug. 11, 2009, and entitled, Billing System for Information Dispersal System
• U.S. patent number 7,818,518, issued Oct. 19, 2010, and entitled, System for Rebuilding Dispersed Data
• U.S. patent number 7,546,427, issued June 9, 2009, and entitled, System for Rebuilding Dispersed Data

"We literally built the Cleversafe system from the ground up, including the technology," said Chris Gladwin, Cleversafe CEO. "Cleversafe continues to innovate and break the boundaries of what’s possible with managing and storing large data sets, and the issuance of these five patents, along with the 65 pending applications, demonstrate that we’ve identified a major new area of innovation."