Adobe Systems Assigned Patent for System and Method for Personal Cloud Computing

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Adobe Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,296,763) developed by Mark S. Peercy, Cupertino, Calif., and Danny D. Loh, Menlo Park, Calif., for a "system and method for personal cloud computing."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for providing Personal Cloud computing and for hosting applications and/or content may employ a network attached storage device on which virtual machine monitors (T-cups) and logical devices (Ts) are instantiated in memory. Each T may include hosted content, application modules, a server module configured to host the modules and/or content, and an interface module configured to provide access to the modules and/or content in response to detecting an authorized key…

Detecting an authorized key may include communicating with a name server to determine if a T instantiated on a storage device coupled to the system is associated with a device identifier on a list of device identifiers authorized to access the module(s). The storage device may be a computer, camera, frame, phone, audio/video player, or portable storage device. The name server may be configured to authenticate Ts, define T ownership, and/or establish friend-to-friend networks between Ts."

The patent application was filed on May 29, 2009 (12/475,247). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,296,763&OS=8,296,763&RS=8,296,763