US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on June 17 for "Methods and system of preventing duplication of encrypted data" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,143, issued on June 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and system of preventing duplication of encrypted data" was invented by Assaf Natanzon (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method prevents duplicate data to be stored in storage having hosts which do not trust each other. The method includes storage including encrypted data blocks, network further including distributed ledger, accessible to each of two or more hosts. The method includes steps, performed by first host when the first host wishes to store a new data block, obtaining first hash value for new data block, deter...