ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,846, issued on June 24, was assigned to AWES.ME INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Efficient similarity detection" was invented by Gabrielle Burns (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Yuping He (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to a method for uploading a file to a server. The server receives a request from a user to upload a file thereto. An upload client extracts file information from the file. The server generates a file signature for the file. The server accesses one or more existing file signatures for each of one or more existing files on the server. The server determines whether an...