Go Daddy Assigned Patent

Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC (Scottsdale, AZ), has been assigned a patent (8,260,913) developed by five co-inventors for "reading a file from a cloud storage solution."

The co-inventors are Adam Knapp, Mesa, AZ, Brian Krouse, Tempe, AZ, Joseph Miller, Chandler, AZ, Eric Nilsen, Phoenix, and Brent Strange, Gilbert, AZ.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods of the present invention provide for a user requesting a file or a plurality of file chunks stored in a file storage system, and a customized metadata stored in data storage. One or more tracker servers may determine file locations in the file system, and the location of the customized metadata in the data storage. These locations may be returned to an application, possibly an API, which may determine one or more URLs for the file locations and perform an HTTP request to read the file or file chunks from the locations or URLs in the file system. The file or file chunks, along with the customized metadata, may then be returned and displayed to the user that requested them."

The patent application was filed on May 6, 2010 (12/774,725).