LeoNovus Assigned Patent

LeoNovus USA, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,333,860) developed by Willis, Daniel, Master, Paul, Campbell, Gordon, Sunnyvale, CA, O’Hagan, Sean, Ottawa, Canada, and Noble, Derek, Kanata, Canada, for “cloud computing system and method utilizing unused resources of non-dedicated devices.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”In accordance with a method a plurality of subscriber systems are provided, the systems being coupled via a Wide Area Network, (WAN) and comprising a first subscriber system. The first subscriber system has processing and non-volatile storage and is suitably programmed for providing a subscriber service to a first subscriber. The first system is disposed in an unsecured location, which is associated with the first subscriber. Subsequently, the subscriber service is provided to the first subscriber. Separately, a task is provided to the first subscriber system via the WAN and is executed on the first subscriber system. An activity record for the execution of the task is logged, based on an amount of at least one of the processing and the non-volatile storage consumed on the first subscriber system during execution of the task.”

The patent application was filed on July 10, 2014 (14/327,729).