Google Assigned Patent

Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,396,969) developed by Michael F. Schwartz and David Erb, Seattle, WA, for a "domain name buckets in a hosted storage system."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one general aspect, this document describes a computer-implemented method for creating buckets in a hosted storage platform. The method may include receiving, at a hosted storage computer system that utilizes a single namespace across data stores of the hosted storage computer system, a request from a user of the hosted storage computer system to create a bucket having a name that includes a domain name. The method may also include verifying that the user is an authorized manager of a domain that corresponds to the domain name. The method may also include creating the bucket on the hosted storage computer system upon verification that the user is an authorized manager of the domain."

The patent application was filed on Oct. 4, 2011 (13/252,426).