Patents by Inventor Lachlan MACKINNON

Lachlan MACKINNON has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11991279
    Abstract: A method of securely storing data including providing, within a secure data storage system, a plurality of secret sharing methods for selection and identifying a striping policy for storage of the data, in accordance with input preferences. The data can be split into N secret shares according to a secret sharing method, the selection being determined by the striping policy, wherein a threshold number, T, of such shares is sufficient to recover the data, where T is less than N, generating metadata associated with the data, the metadata identifying the selected secret sharing method and storing the metadata within the secure data storage system and writing the secret shares to storage that includes storage outside the secure data storage system, such that, when at least T shares are retrieved, the metadata can be recalled to identify the selected secret sharing method for recovery of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: LEADING SOFTWARE LIMITED
    Inventors: David Lanc, Lu Fan, Lachlan Mackinnon, Bill Buchanan
  • Publication number: 20210320791
    Abstract: Systems and methods for adaptive recursive descent data redundancy are described herein. In one embodiment, a method can include identifying the data object or file for Quantum Fragmentation, determining, via a first portion of a Quantum Fragmentation instance, a factor of fragmentation for the data object or file, transforming the data object or file into a plurality of first data fragments according to the factor of fragmentation by applying one or more cryptographic processing, integrity checking, and resilient fragmentation schemes, via the first portion of the Quantum Fragmentation instance, and persisting, via the first portion of the Quantum Fragmentation instance, each of the plurality of first data fragments to a data store of a plurality of available Cloud or other data stores or to a subsequent portion of the Quantum Fragmentation instance, wherein the persistence for each of the first data fragment occurs independently from the other first data fragments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: David LANC, Sophie Lanc, Josh Fraser, Lachlan Mackinnon, Jamie Hunter, Iain Sotherland
  • Publication number: 20210234682
    Abstract: A method of securely storing data including providing, within a secure data storage system, a plurality of secret sharing methods for selection and identifying a striping policy for storage of the data, in accordance with input preferences. The data can be split into N secret shares according to a secret sharing method, the selection being determined by the striping policy, wherein a threshold number, T, of such shares is sufficient to recover the data, where T is less than N, generating metadata associated with the data, the metadata identifying the selected secret sharing method and storing the metadata within the secure data storage system and writing the secret shares to storage that includes storage outside the secure data storage system, such that, when at least T shares are retrieved, the metadata can be recalled to identify the selected secret sharing method for recovery of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: David Lanc, Lu Fan, Lachlan Mackinnon, Bill Buchanan
  • Patent number: 10979222
    Abstract: A method of securely storing data including: providing, within a secure data storage system, a plurality of secret sharing methods for selection and identifying a striping policy for storage of the data, in accordance with input preferences. The data can be split into N secret shares according to a secret sharing method, the selection being determined by the striping policy, wherein a threshold number, T, of such shares is sufficient to recover the data, where T is less than N, generating metadata associated with the data, the metadata identifying the selected secret sharing method and storing the metadata within the secure data storage system and writing the secret shares to storage that includes storage outside the secure data storage system, such that, when at least T shares are retrieved, the metadata can be recalled to identify the selected secret sharing method for recovery of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: LEADING SOFTWARE LIMITED
    Inventors: David Lanc, Lu Fan, Lachlan Mackinnon, Bill Buchanan
  • Publication number: 20170163418
    Abstract: A method of securely storing data including: providing, within a secure data storage system, a plurality of secret sharing methods for selection and identifying a striping policy for storage of the data, in accordance with input preferences. The data can be split into N secret shares according to a secret sharing method, the selection being determined by the striping policy, wherein a threshold number, T, of such shares is sufficient to recover the data, where T is less than N, generating metadata associated with the data, the metadata identifying the selected secret sharing method and storing the metadata within the secure data storage system and writing the secret shares to storage that includes storage outside the secure data storage system, such that, when at least T shares are retrieved, the metadata can be recalled to identify the selected secret sharing method for recovery of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: David LANC, Lu FAN, Lachlan MACKINNON, Bill BUCHANAN
  • Publication number: 20170005797
    Abstract: A method of securely storing data including: providing, within a secure data storage system, a plurality of secret sharing methods for selection and identifying a striping policy for storage of the data, in accordance with input preferences. The data can be split into N secret shares according to a secret sharing method, the selection being determined by the striping policy, wherein a threshold number, T, of such shares is sufficient to recover the data, where T is less than N, generating metadata associated with the data, the metadata identifying the selected secret sharing method and storing the metadata within the secure data storage system and writing the secret shares to storage that includes storage outside the secure data storage system, such that, when at least T shares are retrieved, the metadata can be recalled to identify the selected secret sharing method for recovery of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: David LANC, Lu FAN, Lachlan MACKINNON, Bill BUCHANAN