Citrix Systems Assigned Two Patents

Web storage based IoT device protect mechanism
Citrix Systems, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL, has been assigned a patent (10,805,381) developed by Wu, Hao, Nanjing, China, for a “Web storage based IoT device protect mechanism.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Described embodiments provide systems and methods for provisioning disk images on remote devices. Described is a device configured to connect to a pre-configured network upon device start-up, transmit a request to a server at a pre-configured network address, receive a response containing a disk image for the device, and populate a memory component of the device with the disk image received. Described is a server configured to, responsive to receiving a request from a device, authenticate the request, identify a disk image corresponding to the device, and transmit the disk image to the device. These systems and methods are well suited for improving security and integrity of deployed special-purpose devices, e.g., as may be used for an Internet of Things deployment.”

The patent application was filed on October 3, 2017 (15/723,939).

Elastic cloud storage on multiple locations
Citrix Systems, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL, has been assigned a patent (10,778,769) developed by Zhang, Jun, Nanjing, China, for an “elastic cloud storage on multiple locations.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Described embodiments provide systems and methods of managing storage of data of a user across storage service providers. A storage service may receive a request to store data by a user. The storage service may communicate with storage service providers and may maintain storage vectors for each storage service provider. The storage service may identify a policy for the user. The policy may specify usage of the storage service providers based on a user profile. The storage service may determine, based on the policy, storage service providers to use to store the data of the user. The storage service may store a first portion of the data to a first storage vector of a first storage service provider. The storage service may store a second portion of the data to one of a second storage vector of a second storage service provider or a storage of the storage service.”

The patent application was filed on July 25, 2018 (16/044,942).