Ctera Assigned Patent

Ctera Networks, Ltd., Petach-Tikva, Israel, has been assigned a patent (10,521,423) developed by Brand, Aron, Petach-Tikva, Israel, for “apparatus and methods for scanning data in a cloud storage service.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Methods and apparati for scanning objects stored in a cloud storage system are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes determining at least one object that requires scanning, scanning each of the at least one object, wherein the scanning is performed using at least one scanning engine, and synchronizing the scanning results of the at least one object with a plurality of devices connected to the cloud store system.”

The patent application was filed on July 28, 2015 (14/811,235).