Symform Assigned Patent

Symform, Inc., Seattle, WA, has been assigned a patent (8,462,665) developed by Bassam Tabbara, Praerit Garg, Seattle, WA, for a "shared community storage network."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A hardware and/or software facility for durably and securely storing data within a shared community storage network. A user may have a storage device that they intend to share with others in the network. All or a portion of the storage device is registered with the community storage network as a storage node. Once registered with the network, third party data may be stored on the storage node and remotely accessed by third parties. In addition, data stored on the storage device by the user may be stored in the shared community storage network by encrypting the data, adding redundancy, and distributing it to other storage nodes within the storage network. Data that is stored in the storage network is accessible to the user even if their storage device is inaccessible or fails."

The patent application was filed on Dec. 23, 2010 (12/977,426).