US Patent Issued to Google on Jan. 20 for "Authenticating a file system within untrusted storage" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,477, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Authenticating a file system within untrusted storage" was invented by Yu-Ting Hsieh (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document includes techniques, apparatuses, and systems for authenticating a file system (112) within untrusted storage (104). In particular, a file-system authenticator (108) generates a file-system root hash (206) corresponding to the file system (112) during a write operation. The file-system root hash (206) is uniquely determined based on contents of files within the file system (112) and a structure of the file syste...