Mokhtarzada Holdings Assigned Patent

Mokhtarzada Holdings LLC, Silver Spring, MD, has been assigned a patent (10,180,883) developed by Mokhtarzada, Danyal Haroon, Mokhtarzada, Zekeria Tariq, Silver Spring, MD, and Stout, Ryan William, Bozeman, MT, for “method and system for expanding storage capacity of a drive using cloud storage systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A storage drive and associated system and method for storing data locally at the storage drive and/or at cloud storage may buffer, in a local storage buffer, data to be stored at the cloud and upload the data to the cloud storage from the local storage buffer. Upon receipt of an acknowledgement, from the cloud storage, that the data was successfully uploaded, the storage drive may delete the data from the local storage buffer. The storage drive may provide a ghost file representation of the uploaded data through the storage drive, through which the data uploaded to the cloud storage may be accessed. The storage drive may access multiple cloud storage accounts, each corresponding to a file folder on the storage drive, allowing the user to easily access different cloud storage accounts. The storage drive may recover data that was deleted from either local persistent storage or the cloud storage”.

The patent application was filed on April 25, 2017 (15/497,102).