Verizon Assigned Patent

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ, has been assigned a patent (9,577,988) developed by Rao, Ravindra J., Sunnyvale, CA, Francis, Gary R., San Clemente, CA, and Chaudhary, Ashay, Redmond, WA, for a “data encryption, transport, and storage service for carrier-grade networks.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method, a system, and a non-transitory storage medium for storing user preferences pertaining to a data encryption service that provides on-demand encryption for data in-flight and at rest, receiving data from a user device, determining whether to invoke the data encryption service based on the data and the user preferences, generating a key to encrypt the data based on determining that the data encryption service is to be invoked, generating a first message that includes the data, the key, and data indicating where encrypted data is to be stored, establishing a secure connection with a device, and transmitting the first message to the device via the secure connection.“

The patent application was filed on September 26, 2014 (14/497,440).