Raytheon Applied Signal Technology Assigned Patent

Raytheon Applied Signal Technology, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,774,683) developed by Williams, Charles, Anaheim Hills, CA, for a “device and method for data storage using network buffer.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Generally discussed herein are systems, apparatuses, and methods for data storage. In one or more embodiments, a method can include parsing a file of a first node connected to a network into payloads of a plurality of Internet Protocol (IP) packets, adding a specified number of random IP headers from a list of IP headers to each of the IP packets, and communicating the IP packets including the IP headers to a second node on the network as determined by a first IP header of a respective IP packet so as to store the packet on the network buffer of the second node.“

The patent application was filed on March 30, 2015 (14/672,468).