Datto Assigned Patent

Datto, Inc., Norwalk, CT, has been assigned a patent (10,581,858) developed by Fury Christ, John, and McChord, Austin, Norwalk, CT, for a “network attached storage, (NAS) apparatus having reversible privacy settings for logical storage area shares, and methods of configuring same.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A Network Attached Storage, (NAS) apparatus to provide network-based data storage for client computing devices, (e.g., in a local area network). One or more file-based logical storage area, (LSA) shares are created in memory of the NAS apparatus, wherein each file-based LSA share originally is configured as one of ‘private access’, (only certain users have access to a private file-based LSA share) or ‘public access’, (any user on the LAN that can access the NAS appliance can also access the public file-based LSA share). At some later time, the file-based LSA share may be reconfigured to go from private-to-public access or public-to-private access, (each file-based LSA share has a ‘reversible privacy setting’). In one example, object permissions for each object, (file or folder) already stored on the LSA share prior to the access reconfiguration are updated on an object-by-object basis to ensure appropriate access to all legacy objects after the access reconfiguration.”

The patent application was filed on April 1, 2016 (15/563,377).