US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Jan. 20 for "Secure peer-to-peer file sharing using distributed ownership data" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,843, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Secure peer-to-peer file sharing using distributed ownership data" was invented by Vishwas Saxena (Bangalore, India), Rashi Gupta (Rampur, India) and Deepankar Kansal (Bathinda, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and network attached storage nodes for secure peer-to-peer file sharing using consistent hashing for distributed ownership data. A plurality of network attached storage nodes may be interconnected by a network and configured for peer-to-peer communication without a centralized server. When a node receives a user...