Novell Assigned Patent
Remote enabling of storage
By Francis Pelletier | October 14, 2015 at 2:35 pmNovell, Inc., (Micro Focus), Provo, UT, has been assigned a patent (9,141,287) developed by Isaacson, Scott Alan, Woodland Hills, UT, Nicolet, Jim Alan, Port Orchard, UT, Nazeer, Nadeem Ahmad, Lehi, UT, Nicholes, Bradley Garrell, Pleasant Grove, UT, and Boogert, Kevin Marinus, Sandy, UT, for a “remote enabling of storage.”
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Techniques for enabling storage remotely are presented. A REpresentational State Transfer, (REST) front-end interface is interfaced to a legacy file system via a backend interface that directly interacts with the native storage and protocols of the legacy file system. The REST interface is presented as the frontend interface to the legacy file system making the storage of the legacy file system available to web or network-enabled devices.“
The patent application was filed on March 15, 2013 (13/832,378).