Rackspace Assigned Patent

Rackspace US, Inc., San Antonio, TX, has been assigned a patent (9,183,213) developed by Dickinson, John A., Schertz, TX, for a “indirection objects in a cloud storage system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Several embodiments using indirection objects to organize data in a cloud storage system are disclosed. An indirection object stores associations to different variants or segments of an object. The indirection object receives requests for the objects and responds with the appropriate variant, segment, or segments of the object. The variant, segment, or segments returned may vary from request to request.“

The patent application was filed on May 16, 2012 (13/472,913).