ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,948, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Distributed data content protection" was invented by Ville Ollikainen (Vihti, Finland), Markku Kylanpaa (Helsinki), Anni Karinsalo (Oulu, Finland) and Pekka Koskela (Oulu, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for encrypting and decrypting data in a distributed storage environment. Such systems and methods for encryption may divide a data payload into slices, the slices including a first slice and a subsequent slice, employ a content encryption key and an initialization vector, encrypt the first slice using the content encr...