NooBaa Assigned Patent

Y.G. NooBaa Ltd., Jerusalem, Israel, has been assigned a patent (9,871,816) developed by Tamir, Eran, Rishon-LeZion, Israel, Margalit, Guy, Tel-Aviv, Israel, and Dimnik, Yuval, Mishmar David, Israel, for “systems and methods for security management of multi-client based distributed storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “There is provided a method of maintaining a security risk level of data objects stored in a distributed system, comprising: estimating a current security risk level of at least one storage unit of each of a plurality of network nodes based on real time monitoring, distributing a plurality of data objects among the at least one storage units of the plurality of network nodes according to the current security risk level such that a minimal security requirement of each data object is complied with, detecting a change in the current security risk level of the at least one storage unit, and creating a new copy of at least one of the data objects for storage on a different network node such that the minimal security requirement of each data object is maintained.”

The patent application was filed on April 21, 2016 (15/318,676).