Spectrum Patents Assigned Patent

Spectrum Patents, Inc., Longview, TX, has been assigned a patent (9,922,111) developed by Emigh, Aaron, Incline Village, NV, and Roskind, James, Redwood City, CA, for a “data restoration utilizing redundancy data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “In some embodiments, techniques for data backup and restoration comprise creating a redundancy data element by computing an erasure correcting code on elements of data from a first set of computers that includes a first computer and a second computer, wherein the elements of data includes a first data element from the first computer and a second data element from the second computer, transmitting the redundancy data element to a third computer for storage thereon, receiving a request for data restoration relating to the first data element, creating a restoration data, wherein the restoration data is a reconstruction of the first data element, wherein creating the restoration data includes computing an erasure correcting code on elements of data that include the second data element and the redundancy data element, and providing the restoration data responsive to the request for data restoration.”

The patent application was filed on November 29, 2015 (14/953,379).