US Patent Issued to SAP on March 4 for "Cloud drive management" (French, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,430, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Cloud drive management" was invented by Rajib Saha (Bengaluru, India) and Ghislain Hude (Levallois-Perret, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Interaction with different remote cloud drives is achieved utilizing a drive engine comprising a browsing component and a file manager. The browsing component receives from a consumer, a request to perform an action (e.g., upload; download) with a particular cloud drive. In response to the request, the browsing component retrieves a directory from the cloud drive. The browsing component generates a JavaScript Object Notatio...