SpotStorage Assigned Patent

SpotStorage, Inc., Reston, VA, has been assigned a patent (8,938,517), developed by Fishgait Alex, Maalot, Israel, Laufer Yaron, Zichron Yaacov, Israel, Albo Dror, Givat Ada, Israel, and Garcia-Meza Jaime, Great Falls, VA, for a “system, method and computer program product for managing a remote storage.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method, system and a computer program product that includes a non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions for: receiving, by a target entity, a plurality of information blocks and metadata that is associated with the plurality of information blocks, wherein the metadata comprises non-block layer metadata that differs from block layer metadata and performing at least one memory storage operation on the information blocks before at least some of the information blocks are sent to a remote storage device over a wide area network ,WAN.“

The patent application was filed on August 4, 2011 (13/197,923)

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We were able to link SpotStorage, Inc. to the old Nubisio, Inc., thanks to the HQ address in Reston, VA.

Nubisio was taken by the bank in the mid- 2014 because of bankruptcy in the US. All the assets of Nubisio, including intellectual property, equipment and licenses were then auctioned in September. 2014, to become SpotStorage, Inc.. One of the investors backing the transactions was Bain Capital Ventures, who also backed Nubisio, Inc. at that time. You can find information about Nubisio at www.bainventurescapital.com but nothing about SpotStorage.

The start-up was backed by entrepreneurs and Bain Capital Ventures, to build "the next generation of cloud-enabled enterprise storage."

SpotStorage were supposed to do their début last fall, but after contacting by phone one of Nubisio’s co-founder, we learned that Spotstorage was let down and never launched. When you try to open the websites of SpotStorage or Nubisio, you get a forbidden error.

We first thought it was because of our IP location and tried to access to the website via VPN with an American server, but had no success. Last Twitter messages from SpotStorage were sent in November 2014, with no updates since then. Facebook page has also been removed.