Maxsp Assigned Patent

Maxsp (out of business), Sunnyvale, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,422,833) developed by president an CEO Robert O. Keith Jr., Modesto, CA, for a "method of and system for enhanced storage."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of and system for enhanced storage allows more data to be backed up than would otherwise be possible. Instead of storing uncompressed base images and incremental images, differentials of non-current base images are compressed and stored. Furthermore, incremental images that are older than the current base image are removed. By only saving differential base images that are compressed, aside from the newest base image, and deleting older incremental images, a significant amount of space is saved. A removable drive is used as temporary storage in the process of generating a compressed differential base for previous base images. Additionally, a process ensures that previous base images are differentials of the most recent base image and not each other."

The patent application was filed on April 4, 2012 (13/439,622).