Titanide Ventures, LLC v. Google, Inc.
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COMPLAINT against Google, Inc. ( Filing fee $ 350 receipt number 0540-3506749.), filed by Titanide Ventures, LLC. (Attachments: # 1 Civil Cover Sheet, # 2 Exhibit A - U.S. Patent Number 6,714,968, # 3 Exhibit B - U.S. Patent Number 6,735,623, # 4 Exhibit C - U.S. Patent Number 6,952,724)(Hill, Jack)
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United States Patent
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Prust
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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEAMLESS
ACCESS TO A REMOTE STORAGE SERVER
UTILIZING MULTIPLE ACCESS
INTERFACES EXECUTING ON THE
REMOTE SERVER
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Inventor:
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Assignee: Mitch Prust, St. Paul, MN (US)
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Notice:
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Appl. No.: 09/501,041
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Filed:
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Int. CI? ....................... G06F 15/16; G06F 15/173;
G06F 9/00
U.S. CI. ....................... 709/219; 709/217; 709/203;
709/225; 709/328
Field of Search ................................. 709/217-219,
709/328,214,203
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Mitch Prust, 16244 Ramsey Blvd.
NW., Ramsey, MN (US) 55303
Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this
patent is extended or adjusted under 35
U.S.c. 154(b) by 0 days.
Feb. 9, 2000
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WO 94/18634
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Patent No.:
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Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2004
WO 98/24025
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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Primary Examiner-David Wiley
Assistant Examiner-Joseph E. Avellino
(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.
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ABSTRACT
A data storage system is described that provides seamless
access to remote data storage areas via a global computer
network. The data storage system includes one or more
storage servers coupled to one or more storage devices. The
storage devices provide a plurality of virtual storage areas,
where each virtual storage area is assigned to a user. Access
to the virtual storage areas is fully integrated with an
operating system executing on a client computer such that
the user, or software applications executing on the client
computer, can seamlessly access the corresponding virtual
storage area using standard file management routines provided by the operating system. In addition, the invention
provides a wide range of other remote access methods to the
virtual data storage areas.
25 Claims, 8 Drawing Sheets
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User accesses the remote storage servers via a global
computer network, such as the Internet, and request a
corresponding virtual storage area.
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Upon allocation, users can access the respective remote
storage area via a variety of access interfaces.
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