Ab Initio Technology Assigned Patent

Ab Initio Technology LLC, Lexington, MA, has been assigned a patent (9,846,732) developed by Farver, Jennifer M., Cambridge, MA, Thomas, Ben, Bedford, MA, Vigneau, Joyce L., Stoneham, MA, Fournier, David, Hoboken, NJ, Fisher, Ben, Baldwin, NY, and Fernandez, Gary, Concord, MA, for a “communicating with data storage systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “In some aspects, a method includes connecting over a network to a data storage system, the data storage system storing data objects. A dataflow graph that includes nodes representing data processing components connected by links that represent flows of data access an interface of the data storage system. The interface provides functions for accessing the data objects. At least one of the data processing components performs operations on a received input flow of data that enable the functions provided by the interface to modify one or more stored data objects, and performs operations in response to functions provided by the interface to generate an output flow of data.”

The patent application was filed on February 12, 2010 (12/705,129)