ProphetStor Assigned Patent

ProphetStor Data Services, Inc. announced an expansion of its global patent portfolio, demonstrating its commitment to storage systems.

The company has received notice from United State Patent and Trademark Office about the assignment of the patent entitled Method for encapsulating functions for application programming interfaces in a cloud environment. (number: 9,063,799)

The patent is part of the recent assignment that are able to reuse the management functions from popular storage systems in the market and provide the storage federation functions. Coupled with the patented technologies the company have for analytics and orchestration functions, the Federator platform can facilitate the storage agnostic data services which provides a dynamic features for its customers.

Federator features an open RESTful API that allows software vendors to develop rich data service applications based on a flat storage infrastructure. With the APIs, the administrators now has the capability to offer data services, such as DR, database virtualization, and data delivery solutions with ease and without any concerns to rework on other storage systems.

“From the beginning, we recognized the importance of developing and then protecting our technology,” said Eric Chen, CEO, ProphetStor. “As a pioneer in software-defined storage (SDS), we are very pleased about the assignment of the patent as it’s the cornerstone for SDS. It helps us to achieve the goal of making the storage programmable through Open RESTful APIs. This assignment furthers our vision to bring SDS to elevate to another level by delivering Data Services and Application Services by leveraging the storage services that we wrap around the various storage systems in the market.“

Federator is the control-path-only SDS controller. It commoditizes storage as it is the only entity to communicate with for any storage needs, regardless of the capacity and performance requirements or the vendors of the underlying physical devices.