Prior art

To identify the most relevant prior art for US patent 8280987, I will examine the patent's cited references. Since I cannot directly access the USPTO database in real-time to perform a live search and retrieve all cited prior art within the USPTO's interface and then analyze each one within this response, I will rely on the information provided in the patent text itself regarding prior art keywords and any explicit mentions of cited documents.

The patent text provides a "Prior art keywords" section, which lists: "server", "data", "data objects", "data object", and "request". These are general terms and do not refer to specific patent documents.

The "Description" section of US8280987 mentions "CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION" and states: "This application claims priority to Australian Patent Application Serial No. 2010202782, filed Jul. 1, 2010, entitled “CLOUD DATA PERSISTENCE ENGINE,” which is incorporated herein by reference for all purposes." This indicates a priority claim but is not a prior art citation under 35 U.S.C. § 102.

Based on the provided patent text, there are no specific prior art patent citations explicitly listed within the detailed description or abstract that I can analyze for full citation, publication/filing date, brief description, and potential anticipation under 35 U.S.C. § 102. The patent describes its own system as an improvement over a "typical data hosting architecture" where "multiple servers may be spread over a geographical area" and "the data stored on each of these servers may be the same (or substantially similar) data as that stored on each other server." It notes that this "may not be efficient for all data to be stored on each server." This general description of existing systems serves as the background prior art the invention aims to improve upon, but it does not point to specific patent documents.

To fully identify the most relevant prior art, a direct examination of the "References Cited" section within the official USPTO record for patent 8280987 would be necessary. Without that specific list, I cannot provide the detailed analysis requested for individual prior art citations.