I thought there may be two options on the Hut'on naming ... 

1) This could be a name pun.  Was there someone named Hutton (Timothy? Lauren?) involved in a project with the word Bite in the title?  Was someone named Hutton involved in early computer engineering?  I don't have an answer here.  But, there are a number of other name puns ("Hook" is derived from the actor who played the captain in the original Broadway production of "Peter Pan").  Perhaps this is an avenue to persue.  

2) in the Klingon's olden days base three mathematics, might their byte have been 9, rather than 8 bits?