eFolder Assigned Patent

eFolder, Inc., Atlanta, GA, has been assigned a patent (10,599,533) developed by Petri, Robert, Santa Clara, CA, and Parab, Nitin, Palo Alto, CA, for a “cloud storage using merkle trees.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Efficient cloud storage systems, methods, and media are provided herein. Exemplary methods may include locating a Merkle tree of a stored object on a deduplicating block store, comparing an object at a source location to the Merkle tree of the stored object, determining changed blocks for the object at a source location, and transmitting a message across a network to the deduplicating block store, the message including the change blocks and Merkle nodes that correspond to the change blocks.”

The patent application was filed on May 18, 2017 (15/599,417).