ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,678, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Security audit of data-at-rest" was invented by Yang Song (Shanghai), Cheng Pan (San Jose, Calif.), Qingliang Lin (Shanghai), Plamen Nedeltchev (San Jose, Calif.), Xuanbei Lu (Cary, N.C.) and Fangyan Ye (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an illustrative method herein may comprise: recognizing, by a device, key entries within a textual data set having a plurality of files; forming, by the device, a group of files by selecting a subset of the plurality of files that are considered by the device to be similar according to a toleran...