McAfee Assigned Patent
Secure distributed backup for personal device and cloud data
By Francis Pelletier | February 26, 2019 at 2:10 pmMcAfee, LLC, Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,198,589) developed by Kumar, Mitesh, Nalluri, Srikanth, Kulkarni, Dattatraya, Halder, Kamlesh, Gadde, Kranthikumar, Bangalore, India, Dhruw, Kaushal Kumar, Bilaspur Chhattisgarh, India, Venkatasubrahmanyam, Krishnapur, Bangalore, India, and Nayak, Susmita, Fremon, CA, for a “secure distributed backup for personal device and cloud data.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Securely distributing a backup file includes identifying a file to be stored, generating a plurality of file chunks from the file, transmitting from a first device, each of the plurality of file chunks to one of a plurality of storage locations, and generating, at the first device, a map that identifies the storage location for each chunk. Retrieving a distributed backup file includes receiving a request to retrieve a file, obtaining a map corresponding to the file, wherein the map identifies a storage location for each of a plurality of file chunks of the file, retrieving the plurality of file chunks from the identified locations, and generating the requested file by combining the plurality of file chunks.”
The patent application was filed on December 23, 2015 (14/757,701).
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