Accenture Global Services Assigned Patent

Accenture Global Services Limited, Dublin, Ireland, has been assigned a patent (9,258,112) developed by Aggarwal, Vibhor, Paul, Sanjoy, Karnataka, India, Km, Annervaz, Kerala, India, and Saxena, Amitabh, Bangalore, India, for a “configurable key-based data shuffling and encryption.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A data shuffling and encryption system may include data storage to store a key and a coding module to shuffle and encrypt an input data sequence. The shuffling and encrypting may include determining an n-dimensional space and populating the n-dimensional space with the input data sequence. A quasi-random function may be applied to sample the n-dimensional space, and samples may be used as an index into the n-dimensional space to determine an output data sequence from the n-dimensional space.“

The patent application was filed on March 15, 2013 (13/839,545).