Infortrend Assigned Patent

Infortrend Technology, Inc., New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (11507678) developed by Lin, Yen-Jui, Peng, Zih-You, and Lin, Chao-Feng, New Taipei, Taiwan, for “method for managing the access authority to cloud storage and the system therefor.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present invention discloses a method for managing cloud service authority in a cloud storage system, which includes: a set of cloud data and a plurality of data servers. The cloud data includes a plurality of user object files and global access control information. Each data server includes an access control enforcement unit for executing or rejecting I/O requests from the client computers, where the access control enforcement unit includes local access control information. The method includes steps of: changing the content of the global access control information in the cloud data, downloading, by the data servers, the changed global access control information from the cloud data, updating, by the data servers, the local access control information therein according to the downloaded global access control information, and processing, by the data servers, I/O requests from the client computers according to the updated local access control information.”

The patent application was filed on 2019-05-28 (16/423170).