Google Assigned Patent

Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,782,392) developed by Ben Margolin, San Mateo, CA, for “privacy-protective data transfer and storage.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method is performed at a computer system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs executed by the one or more processors. The method includes receiving a first data transmission from a first client system, where the first data transmission including a first document, the first document having one or more portions that are marked as private; encrypting the marked portions of the first document using a key; and sending a second data transmission to a destination system, where the second data transmission includes a second document, the second document including the encrypted marked portions of the first document and a remainder of the first document that is not marked as private. The key is unavailable to the destination system. The second document is stored at the destination system.”

The patent application was filed on Feb. 23, 2012 (13/403,833).
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