Sepaton/HDS Assigned Patent

Sepaton, Inc., Marlborough, MA, a subsidiary of HDS,has been assigned a patent (8,938,595) developed by Sandorfi, Miklos, Northborough, MA, and Reiter, Timmie G., Westborough, MA, for a “emulated storage system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for removing redundant data from a backup storage system is presented. In one example, the method may include identifying a first back-up data object, identifying a second back-up data object, detecting a first portion of the first back-up data object that is a copy of a second portion of the second back-up data object, and replacing the second portion with a pointer to the first portion.“

The patent application was filed on June 29, 2007 (11/771,245).