Boeing Assigned Patent

The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL, has been assigned a patent (8,171,337) developed by four co-inventors for "computer architectures using shared storage."

The co-inventors are Marc A. Peters, Garden Grove, CA, Dennis L. Kuehn, Long Beach, CA, David D. Bettger, Redondo Beach, VA, and Kevin A. Stone, Hermosa Beach, CA

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Shared storage systems and methods are provided. A particular shared storage system is a system including multiple instances of shared storage. Each of the instances of shared storage includes data and file system metadata separated from the data. The file system metadata includes location data specifying storage location information related to the data. A persistent common view is provided of local and remote files, file systems, and services in the shared storage."

The patent application was filed on March 30, 2010 (12/750,608).