Fujitsu Technology Solutions IP Assigned Patent

Fujitsu Technology Solutions Intellectual Property GmbH, Munchen, Germany, has been assigned a patent (9,984,085) developed by Hohnke, Thorsten, Konigsbrunn, Germany, for a “cluster storage system, process for secure erasure of data, and computer program product.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A cluster storage system includes a plurality of mass storage systems that provide storage capacity to store data blocks, middleware that provides a plurality of virtual storage pools for a plurality of users of the cluster storage system, at least one user interface that accesses the storage pool allocated to a user, wherein the middleware includes at least one erase algorithm for secure erasure of data blocks, the at least one user interface provides an erase function to erase the storage pool allocated to the user, and the middleware is configured to erase all user-allocated data blocks of the plurality of mass storage systems using the at least one erase algorithm and report the successful erasure via the user interface when the user calls up the erase function.”

The patent application was filed on January 17, 2013 (14/378,419).