AppSense Assigned Patent

AppSense Ltd, Warrington, Great Britain, has been assigned a patent (9,460,296) developed by Walton, Travis, Bolton, Great Britain, and Delivett, Paul, Runcorn, Great Britain, for a “systems, methods and media for selective decryption of files containing sensitive data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems, methods and media are provided for selective decryption of files. One method includes monitoring a secure file storage area including at least one file using a selective decryption process associated with the secure file storage area. Content of each of the at least one file is protected with an encryption. The method also includes detecting a request by an application program for one of the at least one file. The method further includes determining whether the application program needs to access the content of the requested file. The method also includes, when it is determined that the application program does not need to access the content of the requested file, allowing the application program to access the file content without decrypting the encryption.“

The patent application was filed on July 19, 2013 (13/946,770).