Patent №
US 8,316,455
Granted
2012-11-20
Filed 2011
Owner
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
Lab
AI components
1
planning
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
13015018
Accessing a data set with secret and non-secret data. A method includes accessing a data set image. The data set image comprises secret data. The data set image is derived from an authorized data set associated with a master key that authorizes access to the secret data. The master key is not provided with the data set image. The method further comprises restoring the data set image to a computing system to create a degraded data set. Data in the degraded data set other than the secret data is accessed without restoring the master key.
AI classification
Ownership
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
assignment · 257240185
Assignors
BRACE, COLLIN H., MUGGLI, NATHAN D., LEES, WILLIAM B., WHALEN, WILLIAM J.
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.