Cigent Technology Assigned Two Patents

Application-based management of user data storage rights
Cigent Technology, Inc., Fort Myers, FL, has been assigned a patent (11,182,086) developed by Fessel, Tony Edward, Fort Myers, FL, for “method and system for application-based management of user data storage rights.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for controlling access to data storage based on application rights dictating usage ability of a user includes: receiving, by a first application of a computing device, a data access request from a second application of the computing device, the data access request including a user identifier, namespace identifier, application identifier associated with the second application, and data command, verifying data access authorization for a user of the second application and for the second application program based on a first permission stored in an application-application rights table associated with the user identifier, application identifier, the data command, verifying data access authorization for the first application based on a second permission stored in an application-storage rights table associated with the namespace identifier and data command, executing the data command to read from or write data to a data storage interfaced with the computing device associated with the namespace identifier.”

The patent application was filed on July 10, 2020 (16/925,856).

Fast, secure, and complete certification of memory status
Cigent Technology, Inc., Fort Myers, FL, has been assigned a patent (11,175,851) developed by Fessel, Tony Edward, Fort Myers, FL, for “method and system for fast, secure, and complete certification of memory status.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of verifying erasure of data from a data storage device, the method including retrieving a first metadata portion associated with a first block of data included in the plurality of blocks of data, determining, based on the retrieved first metadata portion, a current content classification associated with the first block of data and a current erasure state associated with the first block of data, and determining an erasure status associated with the first block of data based on the current content classification associated with the first block of data and the current erasure state associated with the first block of data.”

The patent application was filed on November 15, 2019 (16/684,858).