Accelerating data transfers is described herein. When a second computing system is requested to transfer a file to a first computing system, a data segment is sent to the first computing system instead of the entire file. The data segment is then compared to data stored within a data store on the first...http://www.google.de/patents/US20080077630?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20080077630 - Accelerated data transfer using common prior data segments