Citrix Assigned Patent

Citrix Systems, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL, has been assigned a patent (9,367,703) developed by Chinta, Madhav, Pompano Beach, FL, for a “methods and systems for forcing an application to store data in a secure storage location.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The present application is directed to methods and systems for redirecting write requests issued by trusted applications to a secure storage. Upon redirecting the write requests, the data included in those requests can be stored in the secure storage area of a client computer. In some embodiments, the methods and systems can include determining whether an application issuing the request is a trusted application that requires data to be stored in a secure storage repository. Upon making this determination, a filter driver can identify a secure storage area on a client computer and can redirect the write request to this secure storage. In other embodiments, the filter driver may deny requests of trusted applications to write to unsecure storage areas.“

The patent application was filed on December 23, 2013 (14/139,135).