US Patent Issued to Red Hat on March 11 for "Encrypted file name metadata in a distributed file system directory entry" (North Carolina, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,597, issued on March 11, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Encrypted file name metadata in a distributed file system directory entry" was invented by Patrick Donnelly (Bedford, N.H.) and Jeffrey Layton (Wake Forest, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Metadata including an encrypted file name can be attached to a directory entry for a file. For example, a method may include a processing device performing operations. The operations may include receiving, from a client system, a request to generate a directory entry in a distributed file system for a file. The operations may include generating the directory entry in a sto...