AT&T Intellectual Property Assigned Two Patents

Asymmetric data mirroring
AT&T intellectual Property II, L.P., Atlanta, GA, has been assigned a patent (10,044,805) developed by Gardner, James A., Middletown, NJ, and Freeman, Darrell G., Breckenridge, TX, for an “asymmetric data mirroring.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Methods, systems, and products mirror data between local memory and remote storage. A write command is sent from a server to a remote storage device, and a timer is established. A current time of the timer is compared to a maximum time period. If the maximum time period expires without receipt of an acknowledgment to the write command, then a write error is assumed to exist to the remote storage device.”

The patent application was filed on March 21, 2016 (15/075,287).

Applying customer owned encryption
AT&T Iintellectual Property II, L.P., Atlanta, GA, has been assigned a patent (10,043,015) developed by Fontanetta, Amee, Cliffwood Beach, NJ, and Rios, Roque, Middletown, NJ, for a “method and apparatus for applying a customer owned encryption.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method, computer-readable storage device and apparatus for customer owned encryption at a centralized storage server are disclosed. For example, the method receives a data file for storage and a customer owned encryption method from the customer, applies the customer owned encryption method to the data file at the centralized storage server to create a customer encrypted data file, deletes the customer owned encryption method from the centralized storage server and applies a general encryption method to the customer encrypted data file, wherein the general encryption method is applied to all data files stored in the centralized storage server.”

The patent application was filed on November 20, 2014 (14/549,543).