Virtual Strongbox Assigned Patent

Virtual Strongbox, Inc., Cornelius, NC, has been assigned a patent (9,813,499) developed by Daly, Jr., Ronald M., Centreville, VA, Giambalvo, Leonard, Fort Mill, SC, and Smilie, Robert Jacob, Concord, NC, for a “virtual storage system and method of sharing access to the virtual storage system for adding electronic documents.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A virtual storage system in data communication with a user computing device via a communication network and methods of sharing access to the virtual storage system that includes at least one processor that receives a request for granting share access of at least one electronic folder of a plurality of electronic folders, and for adding at least one electronic document therein, and input information including upload link information and expiration information corresponding to the share access of the electronic folder, as input by a user, and creates at least one upload link corresponding to the electronic folder based on the input information, for granting share access to a recipient of the at least one upload link. The virtual storage system also includes a plurality of redundant physical storage devices in data communication with the processor and storing the electronic document to be uploaded, and the upload link created.”

The patent application was filed on July 23, 2013 (13/948,194)