Symantec Assigned Patent

Symantec Corp., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,881,003) developed by Shaun Cooley, El Segundo, CA, and Keith Newstadt, Newton, MA, for “online storage aggregation and publishing.” 

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage farm is maintained, on which user generated publishable content is stored. Users can copy generated content to the storage farm for automatic publishing to associated target sites. User login information for the plurality of publication sites is maintained, such that the system can use the login information to login to the various publication sites as a given user. The publishable content stored in the storage farm is compared to publishable content published on the associated publication sites. Responsive to finding publishable content on at least one publication site that is not present on the storage farm, that publishable content can be aggregated to the storage farm for future access by the associated user. Responsive to finding publishable content on the storage farm not published on an associated publication site, that publishable content can be automatically published.”

The patent application was filed on Dec. 13, 2007 (11/956,211).