ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,788, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Open Text SA ULC (Halifax, Canada).

"Systems and methods for bidirectional content synching and collaboration through external systems" was invented by Srijan Bhattacharya (Waterloo, Canada), Brian Alexander Jewell (Kitchener, Canada) and Robert David James Reynolds (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content server can function as the master record keeper even if a file or folder that it manages in an enterprise computing environment is shared externally, for instance, through a cloud system. To mitigate network security risks, the content server polls, from behind a firewall, ...