US Patent Issued to Backblaze on Oct. 27 for "Method and system to efficiently implement low latency uploads with a shard stash to a cloud storage system" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,380, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Backblaze Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Method and system to efficiently implement low latency uploads with a shard stash to a cloud storage system" was invented by Timothy Johnson (Franklin, Mass.), Malay Shah (Los Altos, Calif.) and Jerry Sha (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an approach to perform uploads to a cloud storage system. The improved approach serves to improve upload performance, particularly for smaller uploads, without sacrificing data durability or shard file integrity."

The patent was filed on Oct. 18, 2024, under Application No. 18/920,785.

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