US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on Sept. 2 for "Storage location selection according to query evaluation" (Danish, Lithuanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,216, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Storage location selection according to query evaluation" was invented by Alexey Pavlenko (Vilnius, Lithuania), Jakob Holdgaard Thomsen (Risskov, Denmark) and Dron Rathore (Aarhus, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method or a system for storing a file from a client device in multiple storage locations based on a placement policy with varied constraints for different copies of the file. The placement policy includes sets of policy constraints for different copies, specifying whether each copy should be uploaded synchronously or asynchronously. For...