ServiceNow Assigned Patent

ServiceNow, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (11693831) developed by Shah, Siddharth Rajendra, Kirkland, WA, and Norris, Jeremy, San Diego, CA, for a “security for data at rest in a remote network management platform.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An embodiment may involve persistent storage including a parent filesystem and a pre-configured amount of free space within the parent filesystem that is dedicated for shared use. The embodiment may also involve one or more processors configured to, for each of a plurality of child filesystems: create a sparse file with an apparent size equivalent to the pre-configured amount of free space, create a virtual mapped device associated with the sparse file, establish one or more cryptographic keys for the virtual mapped device, create an encrypted virtual filesystem for the virtual mapped device and within the sparse file, wherein the encrypted virtual filesystem uses the cryptographic keys for application-transparent encryption and decryption of data stored by way of the encrypted virtual filesystem, and mount the encrypted virtual filesystem within the parent filesystem as one of the child filesystems.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-11-23 (17/101421).