Qualcomm Assigned Patent

Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,175,914) developed by Ross, Robert F., San Jose, CA, and Lyle, Michael P., Morgan Hill, CA, for a “distributed content storage and retrieval.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Distributed content storage and retrieval is disclosed. A set of features associated with a content object is determined. A storage location is selected to perform an operation with respect to the content object, from a plurality of storage locations comprising a distributed content storage system, based at least in part on probability data indicating a degree to which the selected storage location is associated statistically with a feature comprising the set of features determined to be associated with the content object”.

The patent application was filed on September 5, 2013 (14/019,410).