Nasuni Assigned Patent

Nasuni, Corp., Natick, MA, has been assigned a patent (8,566,362) developed by Robert S. Mason Jr., Uxbridge, MA, and Andres Rodriguez, Boston, MA for a “method and system for versioned file system using structured data representations.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A versioned file system comprises a set of structured data representations. At a first time, an interface creates and exports to a data store a first structured data representation corresponding to a first version of a local file system. The first structured data representation is an XML tree having a root element, one or more directory elements associated with the root element, and one or more file elements associated with a given directory element. Upon a change within the file system (e.g., file creation, file deletion, file modification, directory creation, directory deletion and directory modification), the interface creates and exports a second structured data representation corresponding to a second version of the file system. The second structured data representation differs from the first structured data representation up to and including the root element of the second structured data representation. The data store may comprise a cloud storage service provider.”

The patent application was filed on June 11, 2009 (12/483,030).