US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 15 for "Using ciphertext to deduplicate data using wide-block encryption" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,097, issued on April 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Using ciphertext to deduplicate data using wide-block encryption" was invented by Glen Alan Jaquette (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: compressing an uncompressed instance of data to create a compressed instance of data. In response to determining that a size of the compressed instance of data is outside a predetermined range, the uncompressed instance of the data is encrypted utilizing wide-block encryption to create a ciphertext string. Moreover, a predeterm...