Patent ID: 8566295
Filing Date: 2013-10-22
Classification: G06F,Y02D

Abstract:
1. An electronic storage facility for storing essential data from an electronic file, wherein the electronic file is broken into data blocks and each data block has a hash, the storage facility comprising: a scanner for receiving a separate hash for each said data block from the customer location to determine whether the hash is for an already well-known data block at the storage facility having a previously established address or a new data block, wherein said data block is considered to be well-known when it is not encrypted, or is encrypted with a service key; a select database having a plurality of addresses for storing said new data blocks at an address in the select database when appropriately instructed by the customer location; a public database having a plurality of addresses for storing all of said well-known data blocks, and new data blocks when defaulted from the select database; and a directory for informing the customer location of the address of each said data block and for instructing the customer location to send only new data blocks for storage at the storage facility.