Sepaton (HDS) Assigned Patent

Sepaton, Inc., Marlborough, MA, a subsidiary of HDS, has been assigned a patent (9,256,611) developed by Trimble, Ronald Ray, Acton, MA, and Kennedy, Jon Christopher, Marlborough, MA, for a “system and method for multi-scale navigation of data.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system configured to generate a macro-fingerprint from at least one predefined set of summaries is provided. The system includes data storage storing a first predefined set of summaries associated with a first region of data, each member of the first predefined set of summaries characterizing data within the first region of data, and at least one processor coupled to the data storage and configured to: read the first predefined set of summaries, select at least one first member from the first predefined set of summaries based on a value of the at least one first member, and store the at least one first member within a first macro-fingerprint. The first region of data may have a first size indicative of a quantity of data included in the first region of data. The macro fingerprints are created from previously created smaller, micro) fingerprints without having to reread the data.“

The patent application was filed on June 6, 2013 (13/911,482).