US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 12 for "Hosted file sync with stateless sync nodes" (Washington, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,732, issued on May 12, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hosted file sync with stateless sync nodes" was invented by Michael Murstein (Bellevue, Wash.), Cristian Teodorescu (Seattle), Jason Shay (Seattle), James Benton (Hanover, N.H.) and Ivelin Zheglov (Duval, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system and method to synchronize files from a hosted file system where the client endpoint devices have direct access to the files stored on a hosted file store. When the client desires to synchronize with the files stored on the hosted file store the process identifies a sync role th...