Overland Assigned Patent - Data protection systems with multiple site replication

Overland Storage, Inc., San Diego, CA, as been assigned a patent (8,386,705) developed by four co-inventors for a "data protection systems with multiple site replication."

The co-inventors are Dennis Desimone, Michael H. Reider, Escondido, CA, Kenneth Geist, San Diego, and Victoria Gonzalez, Escondido, CA.
 
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for replicating data from a first site to a second site remote from said first site are described. An embodiment includes storing compressed data on a HDD appliance, reading said data without decompressing said data, sending said data over a wide-area-network (WAN) in a compressed state, and storing said data on a second HDD appliance remote from said first HDD appliance in its compressed state without performing an additional compression operation."