US Patent Issued to Box on March 24 for "Identifying and resolving conflicts in access permissions during migration of data and user accounts" (Massachusetts, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,805, issued on March 24, was assigned to Box Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Identifying and resolving conflicts in access permissions during migration of data and user accounts" was invented by Catherine Powell (Boston), Joseph Daniel Powell (Boston), Kevin Day (Shelburne Falls, Mass.) and Bruce Duncan (Walkersville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide for identifying and resolving conflicts in access permissions migrated data by receiving a set of mappings including path mappings of a hierarchy of data objects on the source system to locations on the target system for migrated data objects. Based on the received s...