Sprint Communications Assigned Patent

Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS, has been assigned a patent (9,509,718) developed by Arthur, Drew, Overland Park, KS, Biggs, Eric, Osawatomie, KS, Hagerman, Phillip, Grandview, MO, McGaha, Darren, Stilwell, KS, and Pratt, Matthew J., Olathe, KS, for a “network-attached storage solution for application servers.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage system for application servers is disclosed. The storage system comprises a network-attached storage device comprising a plurality of files that include a plurality of server applications in a plurality of network zone directories. Each of the network zone directories corresponds to one of a plurality of network zones. Access is restricted between each of the network zones. The storage system also comprises one or more application servers in each of the network zones. Each application server is configured to mount only a network zone directory of the network zone directories corresponding to a network zone of the network zones within which the corresponding application server resides based on a policy associated with the network-attached storage device and access one or more of the files including at least one server application of the server applications in the network zone directory.“

The patent application was filed on July 17, 2014 (14/334,403).