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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2006
Raymond E Ozzie, Seattle, WA (US);
William H. Gates, Iii, Medina, WA (US);
Thomas F. Bergstraesser, Kirkland, WA (US);
Lili Cheng, Bellevue, WA (US);
Michael Connolly, Seattle, WA (US);
Alexander G. Gounares, Kirkland, WA (US);
Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Debi P. Mishra, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ira L. Snyder, Jr., Bellevue, WA (US);
Melora Zaner-godsey, Redmond, WA (US);
Raymond E Ozzie, Seattle, WA (US);
William H. Gates, III, Medina, WA (US);
Thomas F. Bergstraesser, Kirkland, WA (US);
Lili Cheng, Bellevue, WA (US);
Michael Connolly, Seattle, WA (US);
Alexander G. Gounares, Kirkland, WA (US);
Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Debi P. Mishra, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ira L. Snyder, Jr., Bellevue, WA (US);
Melora Zaner-Godsey, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system that enables a cloud-based data repository to function as a secure 'drop-box' for data that corresponds to a user is provided. The 'drop box' can be facilitated through the use of cryptographic keying technologies. For instance, data that is ‘dropped’ by or on behalf of a particular user can be encrypted using a public key that corresponds to a user-specific private key. Thus, although the data resides within the large pool of ‘cloud-based’ data, it is protected since it can only be decrypted by using the private key, which is kept secret. The innovation can further facilitate user-centric secure storage by partitioning the cloud-based repository into multiple partitions, each of which corresponds to specific indexing criteria.