Fortinet Assigned Patent

Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,495,556) developed by Redberg, David A., Brooklyn, NY, for a “secure cloud storage distribution and aggregation.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Methods and systems for secure cloud storage are provided. According to one embodiment, a trusted gateway device establishes and maintains multiple cryptographic keys. A request is received by the gateway from a user of an enterprise network to store a file. The file is partitioned into chunks. A directory is created within a cloud storage service having a name attribute based on an encrypted version of a name of the file. For each chunk:, (i) a cryptographic key is selected, (ii) existence of data is identified within the chunk associated with one or more predefined search indices, (iii) searchable encrypted metadata is generated based on the identified data and the selected cryptographic key, (iv) an encrypted version of the chunk is generated, and, (v) a file is created within the directory in which a name attribute includes the searchable encrypted metadata and the file content includes the encrypted chunk.“

The patent application was filed on August 12, 2015 (14/824,769).