PhazrlO Assigned Patent
Distributed cloud storage
By Francis Pelletier | March 8, 2021 at 2:30 pmPhazrlO Inc., Camarillo, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,902,138) developed by Cheung, Chi-Kwan J., Santa Monica, CA, Chang, Donald C. D., Thousand Oaks, CA, Lee, Juo-Yu, Camarillo, CA, Chen, Steve K., Pacific Palisades, CA, and Lin, Tzer-Hso, Chatsworth, CA, for a “distributed cloud storage.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”One embodiment provides a storage management system. During operation, the system identifies a data file of a user. The system obtains an encrypted client registry from a primary cloud provider in a plurality of cloud providers that provide cloud storage to the user and retrieves a key associated with a device of the user by decrypting the encrypted client registry using a hash of a password associated with the user. The system obtains credentials of the plurality of cloud providers by decrypting a locally stored cloud configuration using the key and generates a plurality of coded fragments from the data file based on a generator matrix of erasure encoding. The number of coded fragments is determined based on a number of the cloud providers associated with the user. The system selects a respective coded fragment for uploading to a corresponding cloud provider in the plurality of cloud providers.”
The patent application was filed on March 23, 2017 (15/467,983).