Philips Assigned Patent

Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, The Netherlands, has been assigned a patent (10,902,141) developed by Bernsen, Johannes Arnoldus Cornelis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and Sedghi, Saeed, The Hague, The Netherlands, for “method, software program product, device, and system for managing data flow from a cloud storage device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method for a client device (1) to request data from a cloud storage device (2) comprises receiving a user request (UR) specifying requested data, RD, producing a client evaluation result (ER1) by evaluating an access policy associated with the requested data, and optionally also producing a client cryptographic commitment (P1) on the client evaluation result (ER1). The user request (UR) and the optional client cryptographic commitment (P1) may be transmitted to the cloud storage device (2), and in response a cloud evaluation result (ER2) may be received from the cloud storage device (2), the cloud evaluation result (ER2) being produced by the cloud storage device (2) by evaluating the access policy associated with the requested data. Then, the client evaluation result (ER1) and the cloud evaluation result (ER2) may be compared, and if the client evaluation result (ER1) fails to match the cloud evaluation result, ER2, a warning message may be produced.”

The patent application was filed on March 21, 2017 (16/083,900).