McAfee Assigned Patent

McAfee, LLC, Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,204,109) developed by Gadde, Kranthikumar, Kumar, Mitesh, Halder, Kamlesh, Vardhan, Raj, Bangalore, IN, Nalluri, Srikanth, Kulkarni, Dattatraya, Bangalore, India, Nayak, Susmita, Fremont, CA, and Venkatasubrahmanyam, Krishnapur, Bangalore, India, for a “mechanism for automatic creation and access to favorite personal cloud data.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Distributed favorite files are stored in a favorite storage device. An agent dynamically monitors usage statistics for a plurality of files, wherein the plurality of files are located on a plurality of devices, designates a first file of the plurality of files as a favorite file based on usage statistics for the first file, and in response to designating the first file as a favorite file, stores a copy of the first file on a favorites storage device.”

The patent application was filed on November 23, 2015 (14/392,295).