Sepaton Assigned Patent

Sepaton, Inc., Marlborough, MA, has been assigned a patent (8,620,640) developed by Miklos Sandorfi, Northborough, MA, and Timmie G. Reiter, Westborough, MA, for “an emulated storage system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A backup storage system that emulates a sequential storage medium such as a tape and stores data on a randomly accessible storage medium, such as disk. The backup storage system includes a randomly accessible storage medium, a front-end interface to emulate the sequential storage medium, to communicate with external devices using a protocol that supports the sequential storage medium, and to receive sequential-format data from the external devices, and a back-end interface to receive the sequential-format data from the front-end interface and to store the sequential-format data on the randomly-accessible storage medium.”

The patent application was filed on Sept. 21, 2007 (11/859,088).