Open Text Assigned Patent

Open Text Inc., Menlo Park, CA, has been assigned a patent (12261909) developed by Crofton; Teo Winton, Sudbury, MA, and Raissipour; David, Westborough, MA, for “aggregation and management among a plurality of storage providers.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present disclosure describes systems and methods for aggregation and management of cloud storage among a plurality of providers via file fragmenting to provide increased reliability and security. In one implementation, fragments or blocks may be distributed among a plurality of cloud storage providers, such that no provider retains a complete copy of a file. Accordingly, even if an individual service is compromised, a malicious actor cannot access the data. In another implementation, file fragmenting may be performed in a non-standard method such that file headers and metadata are divided across separate fragments, obfuscating the original file metadata.”

The patent application was filed on 2023-09-22 (18/472999).