ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,143, issued on May 19, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Methods and system of preventing duplication of encrypted data" was invented by Assaf Natanzon (Hod Hasharon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preventing duplication of encrypted data in storage arranged in network in which two or more hosts can store data. The storage includes one or more encrypted data blocks, and the network further includes a distributed ledger accessible to each of the two or more hosts. The method leverages the distributed ledger for efficient deduplication of the data even with untrusted parties, such as the...