Callplex Assigned Patent

Callplex, Inc., St. Peters, MO, has been assigned a patent (8,996,586) developed by Sarakas, Stephen T., St. Peters, MO, for a “virtual storage of portable media files.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Storing and/or virtually compressing a file on a virtual file system associated with a portable media drive. The virtual file system includes the portable media drive and allocated storage of a storage server. The file partitioned into a local portion and at least one remote portion. The local portion is stored on the portable media drive and the remote portions are transferred to the storage server. For a virtually compressed file, the storage size of the file on the virtual file system is calculated as a function of the storage size of the local portion on the portable media drive.“

The patent application was filed on February 15, 2007 (11/675,367).