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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2008
Mark Germain Jules Christiaens, Aalter, BE;
Bastiaan Stougie, Melle, BE;
Tom DE Coninck, Ghent, BE;
Charles Barry Noble, Lake Mary, FL (US);
Mark Germain Jules Christiaens, Aalter, BE;
Bastiaan Stougie, Melle, BE;
Tom De Coninck, Ghent, BE;
Charles Barry Noble, Lake Mary, FL (US);
VERITAS TECHNOLOGIES LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments of a system and method for backing up a plurality of copies of a file are described. A first copy of the file may be owned by a first user, and a second copy of the file may be owned by a second user. The file is split into a plurality of segments, and each segment is encrypted with a respective segment key. Each encrypted segment is transmitted to and stored on a server computer system. De-duplication techniques are used to ensure that only a single instance of each encrypted segment is stored. The segment keys used to encrypt the file segments are also stored on the server computer system in an encrypted form. De-duplication techniques may be utilized so that only a single instance of the encrypted segment keys is stored.