NEC Assigned Patent

NEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan has been assigned a patent (9,201,891) developed by Romanski, Bartlomiej, Heldt, Lukasz, Kilian, Wojciech, Lichota, Krzysztof, and Dubnicki, Cezary, Warsaw, Poland, for a “storage system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Duplicate storage elimination is performed in units of block data generated by dividing a data stream into arbitrary-sized blocks. Further, sub-block data is generated by further dividing the block data into a plurality of pieces of data, and sub-address data based on the data content of each of the pieces of sub-block data is stored in a predetermined storage device. As such, duplicate storage elimination is also performed in sub-block data units based on the sub-address data.“

The patent application was filed on August 25, 2011 (13/819,568).