Siemens Assigned Patent

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, Deutschland, has been assigned a patent (8,949,193) developed by Becker, Detlef, Mohrendorf, Deutschland, Dorn, Karlheinz, Kalchreuth, Deutschland, and Pusztai, Artur, Erlangen, Deutschland, for a “system for archiving composite files and method for operating such a system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system for archiving composite files including metadata and payload data in a file system. In at least one embodiment, the system includes a database for storing, in particular exclusively, a first group of metadata of the archived composite files, corresponding to search criteria usable in a query, at least one information layer in the file system for storing a second group of metadata of the archived composite files in storage files, the second group in particular including the metadata of the first group and/or all metadata, and the archived composite files stored in the file system.“

The patent application was filed on February 3, 2010 (12/699,236).