University of South Florida Assigned Patent

University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, has been assigned a patent (11,055,427) developed by Singh, Vivek Kumar, Tampa, FL, Dutta, Kaushik, Lutz, FL, Padmanabhan, Balaji, and Sasidharan, Shalini, Tampa, FL, for “system and method for a secured cloud file system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A cloud security system and method designed to protect users’ data in case of accidental leaks in a cloud computing environment. Secured hashing of the names of folders stored on the cloud data storage are generated and persisted using multiple iterations of cryptographic hash functions along with a concatenated random number for each of the folder names, thereby providing protection against vulnerability of the folder names. The proposed system is a dual-layer framework consisting of a control layer and a data layer. The control layer is responsible for cryptographic hashing and persistence of the folder name, hashed name, salt, and iterations in a database. The control layer communicates with the data layer and provides the hashed folder names to persist the user data cloud storage.”

The patent application was filed on February 7, 2019 (16/269,998).