PayPal Assigned Patent

PayPal, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,586,055) developed by Boutnaru, Shlomi, Modiin, IL, for an “electronically backing up files using steganography.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Steganography is leveraged to store additional data in the existing data on any given electronic storage. For example, a first request to store a first electronic file is received. Based on the first request, a determination is made as to whether one or more second electronic files meet one or more predefined criteria for being a carrier file for steganography. If the one or more second electronic files meet the one or more predefined criterion for being a carrier file, the first electronic file is electronically stored into the one or more second electronic files using steganography.”

The patent application was filed on October 30, 2017 (15/797,890).