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US 6601104
System and methods for accelerated data storage and retrieval
Current assignee: Realtime Data LLC
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Patent summary
Title, assignee, inventors, filing/issue dates, abstract, and a plain-language overview of the claims.
Patent Overview: US6601104B1
Title: System and methods for accelerated data storage and retrieval
Patent number: US6601104B1
Application number: US09/266,394
Inventor: James J. Fallon
Original assignee: Realtime Data LLC (later-recorded assignment to Realtime Data LLC from Realtime Data Compression Systems, Incorporated; both appear in the supplied text)
Priority/filing date: 1999-03-11
Publication (grant) date: 2003-07-29
Legal status: Expired – Lifetime (anticipated expiration 2019-03-11, per the supplied text)
Purpose and plain-language scope (based only on supplied text): The patent concerns accelerating data storage and retrieval using compression. Per the source, its prior-art keywords are "data, rate, storage device, input, compression," indicating subject matter directed to data compression, data rate, and storage devices. Classifications place it in file-system redundancy elimination using compression (G06F16/1744), ensuring data consistency and integrity (G06F16/2365), network protocol data compression (H04L69/04), and adaptive video coding including encoder output data-rate/code-amount control and buffer-fullness measurement (H04N19/115, H04N19/146, H04N19/15, H04N19/152). The title and these classifications together indicate a system and methods for accelerating storage and retrieval, with adaptive control of compressed data volume relative to buffer/memory state. The excerpt does not include the claims or detailed description, so the precise claimed scope cannot be stated.
Litigation note (no analysis): The supplied text lists litigation entries (e.g., Texas Eastern District Court and Federal Circuit case links) and family litigation flags. Per operating rules, no litigation research, validity, prior-art, or ownership analysis is performed here.
What the excerpt does not establish: It does not establish the specific claims, embodiments, or technical implementation; it does not establish factual priority, ownership, or legal status as conclusions (the source itself labels these as assumptions/not legal conclusions); it does not establish enforceability, validity, or the outcome of any listed litigation; and it omits the full description and figures ("consult the source for omitted text").
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US6601104](/patent/US6601104)/en
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