Lyve Minds Assigned Patent

Lyve Minds, Inc., Cupertino, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,678,678) developed by Gakhal, Randeep Singh, Otala, Tapani, and Ho, Stanley, Cupertino, CA, for a “storage network data retrieval.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method of retrieving data in a storage network may include determining a list of storage blocks of a storage network for potential retrieval of a data file for storage on a first storage block of the storage network. The determining may be based on two or more of: assignment information of the data file as assigned by a storage network manager, location information, device types, peer-to-peer reachability, network information, and presence information. The method may also include attempting to retrieve the data file from a second storage block included in the list of storage blocks for storage on the first storage block. Further, the method may include attempting to retrieve the data file from a third storage block included in the list of storage blocks for storage on the first storage block when retrieval from the second storage block fails.“

The patent application was filed on May 9, 2014 (14/274,443).