Mcafee Assigned Patent

Mcafee, LLC, San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11848965) developed by Rubakha, Dmitri, Sambandam, Venkata Ramanan, San Jose, CA, King, Jonathan, Forest Grove, OR, Polevoy, Igor, San Jose, CA, and Holtzmann, Andrew V., Aurora, CO, for a “secure software defined storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Methods and apparatus for secure software defined storage are disclosed. An example apparatus includes memory and a processor to access a read request for data written to a software defined storage location, obtain the requested data from the software defined storage location, perform a classification operation on the requested data to obtain classification data corresponding to the requested data, the classification data to represent whether the requested data includes personally identifiable information, in response to determining that the requested data includes personally identifiable information, apply data loss prevention to the requested data to create response data, determine whether a client requesting the data from the software defined storage location is authorized to access the requested data, and in response to determining that the client requesting data is authorized to access the requested data, transmit the response data to the client.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-04-27 (17/242017).