ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,225, issued on April 22, was assigned to Box Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Context-aware content object security" was invented by Alok Ojha (Newark, Calif.), Sivaramakrishnan Subramanian (San Jose, Calif.) and Kechen Huang (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As a default, a global permissions model is established. The global permissions model serves for applying a first set of resource access permissions to shared content objects. Additionally, a set of context-aware access policies that govern user interactions over the shared content object is established. When a particular user requests an interaction over a shared c...