US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on April 21 for "Archival status retention flag for stored files" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,337, issued on April 21, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Archival status retention flag for stored files" was invented by Aakash Atul Alurkar (San Jose, Calif.) and Adi David Regev (Fairlawn, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems provide a system that stores, in a storage device, a file and a descriptor corresponding to the file. The descriptor includes a retention time for the file. The system also sets an archival status retention flag to prevent the deletion of the file from the storage device, notwithstanding the retention time set by the descriptor. The system can transmit...