NEC Assigned Patent

NEC Corp., Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11,184,168) developed by Bohli, Jens-Matthias, Leimen, Germany, and Karame, Ghassan, Heidelberg, Germany, for a “method for storing data on a storage entity.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for storing data on a storage entity (SE) includes the steps of: (a) dividing a file to be stored into a plurality of chunks by a client; (b) computing a secret key for each of the chunks of the file; (c) computing for each of the chunks a chunk identifier by the client; (d) checking, by the SE, whether one or more of the chunks have already been stored based on the computed chunk identifiers; and (e) it a case where it is determined that one or more of the chunks have not already been stored, performing the following: encoding the corresponding chunks; computing chunk tags for the chunks using the computed secret key; and storing the encoded chunks and the chunk tags.”

The patent application was filed on February 19, 2016 (15/999,349).