Centri Technology Assigned Patent

Centri Technology, Inc., Seattle, WA, has been assigned a patent (9,647,836) developed by Paris, Luis Gerardo, Maple Valley, WA, Mackey, Michael Patrick, Lake Stevens, WA, and Lu, Li Xin Lance, Lynnwood, WA, for a “secure storage for shared documents.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Embodiments are directed towards managing data storage for secure storage of shared documents. A user or an application may provide data destined for encryption and a public key. Instruction set information that references at least a seed file that may be installed on the network computer may be generated. An encryption key based on the instruction set information may be generated. Header information that includes the instruction set may be generated. And, the header information may be encrypted using the public key. A secure bundle that includes the public key, the encrypted header information, and the encrypted data may be generated and provided to the user that provided the data and the public key or the application that provided the data and the public key. Decrypting the data included in the secure bundle the above actions are generally performed in reverse.“

The patent application was filed on August 17, 2016 (15/239,728).