Yandex Europe Assigned Patent

Yandex Europe AG, Lucerne, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (9,922,036) developed by Nechaev, Sergey Petrovich, Novosibirsk, Russia, for a “system and method for duplicating files on client device for cloud storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Disclosed are systems, methods and computer program products for duplicating files on client device for storage in a cloud storage server. An example method includes: receiving, by a user device, a request to upload a file stored locally on the user device into the cloud storage server, determine time required to generate a unique file identifier for said file and time required to upload said file to the cloud storage server, responsive to the time required to generate the unique file identifier for said file exceeding the time required to upload said file to the cloud storage server, initiating the uploading of the file to the cloud storage server, and responsive to the time required to upload said file to the cloud storage server exceeding the time required to generate the unique file identifier, generating said unique file identifier and transmitting the unique file identifier to the cloud storage server.”

The patent application was filed on February 2, 2016 (15/504,803).