Egnyte Assigned Patent

Egnyte, Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,483,491) developed by Wijayaratne, Ravi, White, Ray, Marathe, Manish, San Jose, CA, Aahz, San Carlos, CA, Ram, Rajesh, Union City, CA, and Jassal, Amrit, Morgan Hill, CA, for a “flexible permission management framework for cloud attached file systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of managing file permissions in a remote file storage system includes defining permissions for the remote file storage system and controlling access to objects on the remote file storage system according to the permissions of the remote file storage system. The permissions are transferred to a client file storage system remote from the remote file storage system, and access to objects on the client file storage system is controlled according to the permissions of the remote file storage system. A remote file storage system includes a permissions file generator operative to generate a permissions file, which is transmitted to a client file storage system for enforcement at the client file storage system.“

The patent application was filed on November 29, 2012 (13/689,648).