US Patent Issued to Stairwell on Nov. 25 for "Using files of interest to identify similar files contained in a corpus of files" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,757, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Stairwell Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Using files of interest to identify similar files contained in a corpus of files" was invented by Michael Joseph Wiacek (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and storage media for using files of interest to identify similar files are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate a corpus of files including a plurality of files, the plurality of files being received from a plurality of sources; store a single copy of each of the plurality of files in a data store; identify a first file of interest; compare the first fi...