Vivint Assigned Patent

Vivint, Inc., Provo, UT, has been assigned a patent (10,091,109) developed by Peacock, Alen Lynn, Orem, UT, Olds, John Timothy, Sandy, UT, Wendling, Jeffrey Michael, West Jordan, UT, and Nolte, Erik Sean, Salt Lake City, UT, for “systems and methods for centrally-assisted distributed hash table .“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Methods and systems are described managing module for locating a target storage device among a plurality of storage devices connected via a network. A computer implemented method includes sending registration information to a central directory, wherein the registration information includes at least an address of one of the plurality of storage devices, and the central directory stores the registration information in a registry. The method also includes sending a request to the central directory for an address for another one of the plurality of storage devices, receiving the address from the central directory if the address is in the registry, and conducting a successive lookup of a closest known address until the address is located if the address is not in the registry.”

The patent application was filed on March 27, 2017 (15/469,881).