ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,964, issued on March 25, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Techniques for data retrieval using cryptographic signatures" was invented by Sean Lobo (Fremont, Calif.), Prasanta Ranjan Dash (San Jose, Calif.) and Hao Wu (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A second data source may retrieve metadata for one or more versions of a set of versions of a file stored at the first data source. In some examples, the metadata for the one or more versions of the file may include at least an identifier of the file, a timestamp, and a cryptographic signature. In some examples, generation of the cryptographic signatu...