US Patent Issued to EMC IP Holding on Feb. 18 for "Restricted data transfer" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,018, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Restricted data transfer" was invented by Michael Roche (Hamilton, Canada), Michal Drozd (Windsor, Canada) and Scott Quesnelle (Burlington, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes receiving, by a first computing entity from a second computing entity, a request for data, providing, by the first computing entity, a compliance API (Application Program Interface) to the second computing entity, receiving, by the first computing entity from the second computing entity, location information and/or data compliance information, by wa...