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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 19, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Akshar Kaul, Bangalore, IN;

Manish Kesarwani, Bangalore, IN;

Sameep Mehta, New Delhi, IN;

Prasad G. Naldurg, Bangalore, IN;

Gagandeep Singh, Jalandhar, IN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2006.01); G09C 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/065 (2013.01); G06F 21/6227 (2013.01); G09C 1/00 (2013.01); H04L 9/008 (2013.01); H04L 2209/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, from a data owner, an input string of plaintext data comprising a plurality of characters for storage in a database of a third-party storage provider; arranging the plurality of characters of the input string as a half pyramid, wherein the half pyramid comprises a plurality of rows, each row comprising at least one more character than a preceding row; encrypting, using a secure encryption scheme and based upon a key, each row of the half pyramid independently from each other row of the half pyramid; and storing, in the database of the third-party storage provider, the encrypted rows of the half pyramid. Other aspects are claimed and described.


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