BlackBerry Assigned Patent

BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has been assigned a patent (9,935,767) developed by White, Johnathan George, and Jung, SeungSub, London, Great Britain, for a “secure storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Methods, systems and computer readable media for configuring secure storage on a computing device. A method comprises: storing, at a first application running on a first computing device, authentication data associated with an authenticated communications session conducted between the first application and a second application running on a second computing device different from the first computing device, receiving, at the first application, an activation command comprising encryption data from the second application, authenticating, by the first application, the activation command based on the stored authentication data, and configuring, by the first application, secure storage on the first device based at least in part on the activation command received from the second application, wherein configuring the secure storage comprises encrypting application data associated with execution of the first application based on the encryption data.”

The patent application was filed on December 10, 2015 (14/965,748).