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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Elwha Llc, Bellevue, WA (US);
Marc E. Davis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew G. Dyor, Bellevue, WA (US);
William Gates, Medina, WA (US);
Xuedong Huang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Roderick A. Hyde, Redmond, WA (US);
Edward K. Y. Jung, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jordin T. Kare, Seattle, WA (US);
Royce A. Levien, Lexington, MA (US);
Richard T. Lord, Tacoma, WA (US);
Robert W. Lord, Seattle, WA (US);
Qi Lu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Mark A. Malamud, Seattle, WA (US);
Nathan P. Myhrvold, Medina, WA (US);
Satya Nadella, Clyde Hill, WA (US);
Danny Allen Reed, Iowa City, IA (US);
Harry Shum, Medina, WA (US);
Clarence T. Tegreene, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Lowell L. Wood, Jr., Bellevue, WA (US);
Elwha LLC, Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting from a user identifier encryption entity at least one encrypted identifier corresponding to a user having at least one instance of data for encryption; encrypting the at least one instance of data to produce level-one-encrypted data; associating the at least one encrypted identifier with the level-one-encrypted data, wherein a level-one decryption key for the level-one-encrypted data is inaccessible to the user identifier encryption entity; and transmitting the level-one-encrypted data and associated encrypted identifier.