Storsimple (Microsoft) Assigned Patent

Storsimple, Inc. (acquired by Microsoft Corporation), Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,189,421) developed by Testardi, Richard, Boulder, CO, Cometto, Maurilio, Palo Alto, CA, and Kulangara, Kuriakose George, Pune, India, for a “system and method for implementing a hierarchical data storage system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method for efficiently storing data both on-site and off-site in a cloud storage system. Data read and write requests are received by a cloud data storage system. The cloud storage system has at least three data storage layers. A first high-speed layer, a second efficient storage layer, and a third off-site storage layer. The first high-speed layer stores data in raw data blocks. The second efficient storage layer divides data blocks from the first layer into data slices and eliminates duplicate data slices. The third layer stores data slices at an off-site location.“

The patent application was filed on September 11, 2012 (13/610,567).