US Patent Issued to OVH on July 8 for "Systems and methods for formatting and reconstructing raw data" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,357, issued on July 8, was assigned to OVH (Roubaix, France).

"Systems and methods for formatting and reconstructing raw data" was invented by Raphael Glon (Guilers, France) and Gaetan Cottereau (Kersaint-Plabennec, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for formatting raw data comprises accessing the raw data, the raw data comprising sparse data segments, which are empty of any data, and non-sparse data segments, which comprise data, and generating a formatted data stream comprising one or more atomic blocks, each atomic block corresponding to a metadata file and to a portion of the non-sparse data segments of the raw data. G...