Microsoft Assigned Patent for Trusted Cloud Computing and Services Framework

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Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,341,427) developed by Rahul V. Auradkar, Sammamish, Wash., and Roy Peter D’Souza, Bellevue, Wash., for a "trusted cloud computing and services framework." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A digital escrow pattern is provided for network data services including searchable encryption techniques for data stored in a cloud, distributing trust across multiple entities to avoid a single point of data compromise.

In one embodiment, a key generator, a cryptographic technology provider and a cloud services provider are each provided as separate entities, enabling a publisher of data to publish data confidentially (encrypted) to a cloud services provider, and then expose the encrypted data selectively to subscribers requesting that data based on subscriber identity information encoded in key information generated in response to the subscriber requests, e.g., a role of the subscriber. Appendix A–Additional Non-Limiting Details about Federated Trust Overlays."…

The patent application was filed on June 25, 2009 (12/491,403). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,341,427.PN.&OS=PN/8,341,427&RS=PN/8,341,427