ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,849, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Dynamic data scan for object storage" was invented by Yuval Lifshitz (Ra'anana, Israel) and Huamin Chen (Westboro, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first data object is received for storing in an object repository of a storage platform. An encryption value of the object repository is increased responsive to identifying that a current entropy level of the first data object exceeds a prior entropy level of the first data object by more than a first threshold value. Remediation is performed by a processing device on the object repository responsive to determini...