IBM has announced that the company has received more than 400 new cloud patents this year. In a press release, IBM has cited some of the patents it received this year. The list is comprised of technologies all geared towards improving the cloud system. Over the week, the company has been the topic of news as its cloud-based computing technology made some new partnerships in Japan.
For over twenty-two years, IBM has claimed to be the leading recipient of cloud patents. The company is known to integrate new technologies to widen its system's capacity. Among the 400-plus patents is the U.S. Patent # 8,949,415. According to the IBM News Room release, some of the features of this patent conserves network bandwidth. It does this by disabling network traffic from a device used by a cloud resource, such as a virtual machine.
Another patent has the purpose of increasing the availability of cloud servers. Security inventions for cloud systems are also included in the collection. The U.S. Patent # 8,894,132 supports secure usage of a cloud system.
"Aspects of the disclosed invention identify aspects of a software application that use secure data and deploy the secured data to one or more secure servers. Non-secure data may be deployed to one or more publicly available cloud servers. Communication between the secure servers and publicly available servers may be managed using secure connections." IBM wrote describing the patent.
Also included in the list are two more inventions. They are directed towards improving cloud computing and discreet access control. The Armonk, New York-based company has yet to announce how the inventions will be used and further improved.
Recently, the company has also acquired a cloud storage service called Compose. IBM seeks to cater to Compose's active customers and has already made it available to IBM's Database Service Business Arm.
