Egnyte Assigned Five Patents

Flexible permission management framework for cloud attached file
Egnyte, Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,216,419) developed by Jassal, Amrit, Morgan Hill, CA, Kariyawasam Bodhitantri Wijayaratne, Ravi, White, Ray, Marathe, Manish, San Jose, CA, Aahz,, San Carlos, CA, and Ram, Rajesh, Union City, CA, for a “flexible permission management framework for cloud attached file systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of managing file permissions in a remote file storage system includes defining permissions for the remote file storage system and controlling access to objects on the remote file storage system according to the permissions of the remote file storage system. The permissions are transferred to a client file storage system remote from the remote file storage system, and access to objects on the client file storage system is controlled according to the permissions of the remote file storage system. A remote file storage system includes a permissions file generator operative to generate a permissions file, which is transmitted to a client file storage system for enforcement at the client file storage system.”

The patent application was filed on August 13, 2019 (16/539,845).

Synchronizing file systems with large namespaces
Egnyte, Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,144,510) developed by Sharma, Shishir, Mountain View, CA, Marathe, Manish, San Jose, CA, Jassal, Amrit, Morgan Hill, CA, Ancin, Hakan, Los Gatos, CA, and Tisnek, Dmitry, Poznan, Poland, for “system and method for synchronizing file systems with large namespaces.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for facilitating synchronization of a remote file system (RFS) and a local file system (LFS) includes maintaining a global revision identifier associated with the RFS, where the global revision identifier has a variable state, and responsive to the RFS being modified, updating metadata associated with one or more of the file system objects of the RFS based on a state of the global revision identifier. More particularly, the method includes updating the global revision identifier to a new state in response to the RFS modification and then updating the metadata of the folder(s) associated with the RFS modification. The RFS metadata is partitioned by folder and file to facilitate efficient searching based on a requested namespace view. Another method utilizes prior revision identifiers stored in the LFS to limit the RFS metadata returned to the local cloud during a rescan, by excluding the data set that has not changed, which improves the efficiency of the rescan synchronization.”

The patent application was filed on June 10, 2016 (15/179,459).

Determining value of digital content
Egnyte, Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,010,776) developed by Loginov, Nikita, Mountain View, CA, Guis, Isabelle Stephanie, Menlo Park, CA, Achalu, Narayanan, Cupertino, CA, and Jassal, Amrit, Morgan Hill, CA, for “system and method for determining value of digital content.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A novel system for performing valuations of file system objects include a processor configured to execute code and memory configured to store data and the code. The code includes an accumulator configured to accumulate secondary data associated with said file system objects, a data aggregator configured to arrange the secondary data in the memory, and a value generator configured to generate an object value indicative of the value of at least one of the file system objects to a particular entity. In a particular embodiment, the value generator creates a record in a valuation database to associate the object value with the at least one of the file system objects.”

The patent application was filed on March 27, 2018 (15/937,379).

Event-based synchronization of remote and local file
Egnyte, Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,909,083) developed by Wijayaratne, Ravi, White, Ray, Marathe, Manish, San Jose, CA, Mielityinen, Markku, Mountain View, CA, Jassal, Amrit, Morgan Hill, CA, Ram, Rajesh, Union City, CA, Gopalan, Sriram, Santa Clara, CA, Aahz,, San Carlos, CA, Toivonen, Heikki J., Santa Clara, CA, and Koos, Remus, San Jose, CA, for “system and method for event-based synchronization of remote and local file systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for synchronizing a file system (FS) and a remote file system (RFS) includes monitoring the FS for FS events, generating FS event records, receiving RFS event records of RFS events, generating file system operations (FSOs) based on the FS and RFS event records, and communicating the FSOs to the FS and RFS to synchronize them. A method for generating the FSOs includes accessing a plurality of FS and/or RFS event records, processing the accessed records to generate processed event records, generating the FSOs based on the processed event records, and outputting the FSOs to cause synchronization of the FS and RFS. Systems are also described. The invention facilitates event-based, steady-state synchronization of local and remote file systems.”

The patent application was filed on January 22, 2020 (16/749,451).

Policy based synchronization of remote and local file
Egnyte, Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,909,082) developed by Wijayaratne, Ravi, Koos, Remus, White, Ray, Marathe, Manish, San Jose, CA, Tisnek, Dmitry, Poznan, Poland, Krishnan, Harikesavan, San Jose, CA, and Jassal, Amrit, Morgan Hill, CA, for “system and method for policy based synchronization of remote and local file systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for synchronizing a local file system (LFS) and a remote, cloud) file system (RFS) includes the step of storing events indicative of differences between the LFS and the RFS, where the events are associated with file system objects of the LFS and RFS. The method further includes the steps of prioritizing the events, generating file system operations for the events based at least in part on the prioritization of the events, and performing at least some of the file system operations to synchronize the LFS and RFS. Prioritizing the events includes defining a plurality of service classes, e.g., based on type of event, event attribute, etc., assigning a priority to each of the service classes, and assigning each event to one of said service classes. Systems are also described. The invention allocates limited synchronization resources based on a predefined policy to synchronize important file system objects sooner.”

The patent application was filed on August 13, 2019 (16/539,925).