US Patent Issued to NextLabs on Jan. 27 for "Protecting documents with centralized and discretionary policies" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,316, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NextLabs Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Protecting documents with centralized and discretionary policies" was invented by Keng Lim (Atherton, Calif.) and Poon Fung (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technique and system protects documents at rest and in motion using declarative policies, access rights, and encryption. Methods, techniques, and systems control access to documents and use of content in documents to support information management policies. Documents are protected using centralized and discretionary policies. Control and protection functions of information or documents ma...