SECURING DEALLOCATED BLOCKS IN A FILE SYSTEM

Patent №

US 11,636,230

Granted

2023-04-25

Filed 2020

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16790798

A computer-implemented method for operating a storage system comprising a file system for managing a data object in one or more storage blocks may be provided. The method comprising receiving from a file system manager a message indicating that the data objects is to be encrypted, determining, in response to the received message, a set of unallocated storage blocks that were previously allocated for storing at least a portion of the data object, and rendering content of the unallocated storage blocks of the set unreadable.

AI hardwareG06F 21/78G06F 21/79G06F 16/11G06F 16/1727

AI classification

AI hardware0.95
Knowledge representation0.01
Planning0.00
Natural language0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 518180245

Assignors

HAUSTEIN, NILS, PATIL, SANDEEP RAMESH, EDA, SASIKANTH, MUELLER-WICKE, DOMINIC

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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