Sookasa Assigned Patent

Sookasa Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,977,661) developed by Cidon, Asaf, San Francisco, CA, Prabandham, Gopal Madan, Los Altos, CA, Cidon, Israel, Palo Alto, CA, Chandrashekhar, Shetty, Naperville, IL, Gavish, Lior, San Francisco, CA, and Srour, Barak, Mountain View, CA, for a “system, method and computer readable medium for file management.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method for file management, the method may include: calculating, by a management server that is located within a cloud computing environment, signatures of multiple files that are stored at multiple storage entities, and finding, by the management server, groups of similar files out of the multiple files, wherein the finding is in response to similarities between signatures of the multiple files, wherein the multiple storage entities comprise at least a first storage entity that is managed by a first management entity and a second storage entity that is managed by a second management entity that differs from the first management entity.“

The patent application was filed on December 26, 2012 (13/726,643).