Datera Assigned Patent

Datera, Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,705,984) developed by Fleischmann, Marc, Palo Alto, CA, Fleiner, Claudio, San Jose, CA, Kromer, Michael, Konigsbrunn, Germany, and Bellinger, Nicholas, Mountain View, CA, for a “system and method for sharing data storage devices.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A fault-tolerant configuration to share computer accessible data storage devices contained in a computer system with other such computer systems. Embodiments of the present invention allow sharing data storage devices contained in a first computer storage system with a second computer system by providing two or more independent connections to the data storage devices, such connections to the second computer system being independent of a motherboard, or a component thereon) contained in the first computer system, and thus ensuring continued access to the storage devices in the presence of component failures of the first computer system, such components being redundant.“

The patent application was filed on November 7, 2013 (14/074,599).