Unisys Assigned Patent

Unisys Corporation, Blue Bell, PA, has been assigned a patent (9,384,149) developed by Johnson, Robert, Dodgson, David, Neill, Joseph, Farina, Ralph, Chin, Edward, Summers, Scott, and French, Albert, Malvern, PA, for a “block-level data storage security system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A secure storage appliance is disclosed, along with methods of storing and reading data in a secure storage network. The secure storage appliance is configured to present to a client a virtual disk, the virtual disk mapped to the plurality of physical storage devices. The secure storage appliance is capable of executing program instructions configured to generate a plurality of secondary blocks of data by performing splitting and encrypting operations on a block of data received from the client for storage on the virtual disk and reconstitute the block of data from at least a portion of the plurality of secondary blocks of data stored in shares on corresponding physical storage devices in response to a request from the client.“

The patent application was filed on March 15, 2013 (13/835,185).