Go Daddy Assigned Patent

Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC, Scottsdale, AZ, has been assigned a patent (8,719,223) developed by five co-inventors for the “cloud storage solution for reading and writing files.”

The co-inventors are Adam Knapp, Mesa, AZ, Brian Krouse, Tempe, AZ, Joseph Miller, Chandler, AZ, Eric Nilsen, Phoenix, AZ, 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 uploading a file and a customized metadata about the file to a file storage system, and reading the same back upon request. This information may be forwarded to an application, possibly an API, which may divide the file into a plurality of file chunks if the file is greater than a predetermined file size. One or more tracker servers may check a database to locate optimal or current file locations for the file or file chunks to be stored within the file storage system. These optimal or current locations may be returned from the tracker servers to the application/API which may perform an HTTP request to write the file to or read the file from the file storage system. The file write may be validated and finalized, and the successful write or read may be displayed to the user on a user interface on a client.”

The patent application was filed on May 6, 2010 (12/774,726)