US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Aug. 5 for "Granting selective access to an encrypted conversation history" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,726, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Granting selective access to an encrypted conversation history" was invented by Balachandar Ganesh Kesavan (New York) and Antonio Marcedone (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Selective access to an encrypted conversation history can be granted as described herein. For example, a first client device can determine a message key used to encrypt messages associated with a conversation. The first client device can then generate a key ciphertext by: determining a prior secret key, determining a current secret key by hashing the prior secret key and th...