OS Nexus Assigned Patent

OS Nexus, Inc., Mercer Island, WA, has been assigned a patent (9,141,289) developed by Umbehocker, Steven Michael, Mercer Island, WA, for a “intelligent data storage utilizing one or more records.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Systems, methods, and apparatus for facilitating intelligent data storage utilizing one or more records are presented herein. A write component of a storage medium can receive data and write one or more portions of the data to a storage block of the storage medium. Further, a signature component of the storage medium can create a record within the storage medium, and update at least one part of the record corresponding to the storage block based on the one or more portions of the data. Moreover, a query component of the storage medium can receive a request and transmit the record based on the request, and transmit one or more attributes of the storage medium based on another request. Furthermore, the signature component can update the at least one part of the record based on whether content of the storage block changed as a function of the write.“

The patent application was filed on March 30, 2010 (12/749,998).