ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,717, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (London).
"Selective data sharing" was invented by Ali Sajjad (London), Mamun Abu-Tair (London) and Syed Muhammad Unsub Zia (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and distributed system for exclusively sharing data between a data provider and one or more selected data recipients is disclosed. Known systems for exclusively sharing data with one or more selected data recipients involve the encryption of the data at a central storage service and limiting use of one or more centrally stored decryption keys to decrypt the data in accordance with an access contro...