Kaspersky Assigned Patent
Copying files between encrypted and unencrypted storage devices
By Francis Pelletier | April 19, 2016 at 2:54 pmKaspersky Lab AO, Moscow, Russia, has been assigned a patent (9,286,486) developed by Kirikova, Evgeniya P., Makarov, Alexander N., and Shiyafetdinov, Damir R., Moscow, Russia, for a “system and method for copying files between encrypted and unencrypted data storage devices.”
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosed are systems, methods and computer program products for copying encrypted and unencrypted files between data storage devices. In one aspect, the system detects a request to copy a file from a first data storage device to a second data storage device, determines one or more parameters of the copied file, the first data storage device and the second data storage device, selects, based on the one or more parameters, a file encryption policy for the copies file, and applies the selected encryption policy to the copied file.“
The patent application was filed on March 12, 2014 (14/206,359).
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