Alcatel Lucent Assigned Patent

Alcatel Lucent SA, Boulogne-Billancourt, France, has been assigned a patent (9,171,006) developed by Kvm, Naidu, Rastogi, Rajeev, Sr, Jeyashankher, Bangalore, India, and Srinivasan, Anand, Karnataka, India, for a “mobile station with expanded storage space and method of retrieving files by the mobile station.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosed is a mobile station having an expanded storage space, and a method of retrieving a file stored in a remote storage server. The method may include determining whether the file is locally stored or remotely stored, deleting files in a local storage to provide space if the file is determined to reside in a remote storage server, downloading the file from a remote storage server over the Internet by prefetching a portion of the file from the remote storage server, and opening the prefetched portion of the file while concurrently downloading a remaining portion of the file from the remote storage server.“

The patent application was filed on April 6, 2007 (11/783,137).