1&1 Internet Assigned Patent

1&1 Internet SE, Montabaur, Germany, has been assigned a patent (9,910,592) developed by Schoebel-Theuer, Thomas, Karlsruhe, Germany, for a “system and method for replicating data stored on non-volatile storage media using a volatile memory as a memory buffer.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system for replicating data comprising includes a first and a second computing device. The first computing device has a first storage unit configured to store block level data, a second storage unit and a volatile memory. The second computing device has a third storage unit and a fourth storage unit configured to store block level data, the third storage unit being communicatively coupled to the second storage unit. The first computing device is configured to receive write requests each containing payload data, write the payload data of the write requests to the volatile memory and append the payload data to the second storage unit, and acknowledge the write requests prior to writing the respective payload data to the second storage unit. The second computing device is configured to detect new data in the third storage unit and apply the new data to the fourth storage unit.”

The patent application was filed on January 28, 2014 (14/763,942).