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Amazon S3 is Patent-Pending

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the seriously-we-got-patent-pending-on-that dept.

theodp writes "If your startup is counting on a copycat service to emerge for Amazon S3 disaster recovery, you might want to start thinking about a Plan C. On Thursday, the USPTO disclosed that Amazon wants a patent for its Distributed storage system with web services client interface invention, aka Amazon Simple Storage Service."

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  1. It's a crazy patent world after all... by RuBLed · · Score: 5, Insightful
    From the Abstract:

    A system may include a web services interface configured to receive, according to a web services protocol, a given client request for access to a given data object, the request including a key value corresponding to the object...


    Hey, we're doing this everyday right? I had used webservices to send and receive all sorts of objects before, text, images, passwords in plain text and stores/reads them from a storage where I use a key value to access it...