Dispersive Networks Assigned Patent

Dispersive Networks, Inc., Cumming, GA, has been assigned a patent (9,495,194) developed by Twitchell, Jr., Robert W., Cumming, GA, and Mai, Khanh, Alpharetta, GA, for a “dispersive storage area networks.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for storing data from an electronic device at a plurality of storage devices of a dispersive storage area network includes communicating, from the electronic device via a virtual network connection, one or more packets to a splitting server. The method further includes splitting, at the splitting server, the data for storage on the dispersive storage area network, and communicating, from the splitting server to each of a plurality of storage servers over each of a plurality of virtual network connections, portions of the split data. The method further includes storing, at each of the storage servers, the received portions of the split data for later retrieval.“

The patent application was filed on March 26, 2015 (14/670,240).