US Patent Issued to Open Text on March 25 for "Aggregation and management among a plurality of storage providers" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,909, issued on March 25, was assigned to Open Text Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Aggregation and management among a plurality of storage providers" was invented by Teo Winton Crofton (Sudbury, Mass.) and David Raissipour (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes systems and methods for aggregation and management of cloud storage among a plurality of providers via file fragmenting to provide increased reliability and security. In one implementation, fragments or blocks may be distributed among a plurality of cloud storage providers, such that no provider retains a complete copy of a file. Accor...