Ctera Assigned Patent

Ctera Networks Ltd., Petach-Tikva, Israel, has been assigned a patent (10,754,826) developed by Brand, Aron, Petach-Tikva, Israel, for “techniques for securely sharing files from a cloud storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method for securely sharing files from a cloud storage are provided. The method includes capturing an electronic message sent by a client device, the electronic message designating at least one recipient, wherein the electronic message includes at least one attachment, identifying the at least one attachment and the at least one recipient designated in the electronic message, sending, to a cloud storage system (CSS), a list indicating the identified at least one recipient, receiving, from the CSS, a link to a shared folder, wherein the shared folder is in the CSS, replacing, in the electronic message, the at least one attachment with the received link, uploading, to the shared folder, at least one of the at least one attachment, and sending, to the at least one recipient, the electronic message with the replaced link, wherein at least one authentication procedure is applied for one of the at least one recipient upon activation of the replaced link by the recipient.”

The patent application was filed on November 18, 2016 (15/355,466).