Pixia Assigned Patent

Pixia Corp., Reston, VA, has been assigned a patent (9,998,524) developed by Thakkar, Rahul C., Leesburg, VA, and Pakula, Scott L., Chantilly, VA, for a “method and system for retrieving data in a data file.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method and system for retrieving at least a portion of a first data file are provided. The method includes receiving a request for the at least a portion of the first data file, the request including a start of the at least a portion and a size of the at least a portion, computing a data offset that is aligned to an integer multiple of a block size of the storage device and nearest to the start of the at least a portion, computing a byte-range that is an integer multiple of the block size of the storage device, reading data within the byte-range, and transmitting the at least a portion starting at an offset relative to the data offset that is aligned to an integer multiple of the block size of the storage device.”

The patent application was filed on November 18, 2015 (14/944,919).