Sookasa Assigned Patent

Sookasa, Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,262,643) developed by Cidon, Asaf, San Francisco, CA, Prabandham, Gopal Madan, Los Altos, CA, Cidon, Israel, Palo Alto, CA, Chandrashekhar, Shetty, Naperville, IL, Gavish, Lior, San Francisco, CA, and Srour, Barak, Mountain View, CA, for a “encrypting files within a cloud computing environment.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system, computer readable medium and a method for encrypting a file, the method may include retrieving the file from a storage service, segmenting the file into multiple file segments, calculating a file segment signature for each of the multiple file segments to provide multiple file segment signatures, encrypting each of the multiple file segments to provide multiple encrypted file segments by using encryption keys that are in response to the multiple file segment signatures, wherein the multiple encrypted file segments form an encrypted file, and sending the multiple encrypted file segments to the storage service.“

The patent application was filed on December 26, 2012 (13/726,641).