Patents Assigned to Intralinks, Inc.
  • Deal room platform using blockchain
    Patent number: 11611440
    Abstract: A method for managing a deal room using a cryptographic ledger that includes a plurality of blocks that store information relating to a deal being hosted in the deal room, the method comprising: receiving a request to perform an operation with respect to the deal room from a remote computing device, wherein the request indicates a user that is requesting permission to perform the operation and a permission key corresponding to the user; determining a cryptographic hash of the operation specific permission key using a hash function; transmitting the cryptographic hash to a plurality of node computing device, wherein each node computing device stores at least a portion of the cryptographic ledger, and wherein the cryptographic ledger in part stores cryptographic hashes of operation specific permission keys that indicate permissions granted to respective users associated with the deal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Intralinks, Inc.
    Inventors: Maher Khatib, Mushegh Hakhinian
  • Systems and methods of secure data exchange
    Patent number: 10764254
    Abstract: A method is disclosed comprising providing a federated search facility adapted to search for content on a plurality of disparate computer content storage facilities comprising receiving a computer content search request from a client computing device, wherein the user of the client computing device has access rights to secure computer content on at least one of a first content storage and a second content storage; executing a first computer content search on the first content storage and a second computer content search on the second content storage; receiving a first computer content search result from the first content storage and a second computer content search result from the second content storage; consolidating the first computer content search result and the second computer content search result into a consolidated computer content search result; and providing the consolidated computer content search result to the user as a single computer content search result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Intralinks, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Todd Ford, Mayank Choudhary, Kevin L. McCarthy, Anupam Miharia, John William Giudice, Kiran Kumar Tadakamalla, Cole Parker Mercer, Peter Wenzel, Paul Tearnen, Clement Cazalot, Salil J. Darji, Jonathan Gorin
  • Systems and methods for zero-knowledge enterprise collaboration
    Patent number: 10546142
    Abstract: Systems and methods for zero-knowledge enterprise collaboration are provided herein. In some embodiments, the method may comprise receiving, at a host server, a request to store a file, wherein the file is encrypted with a data key prior to being received at the host server; receiving a request to perform a first service; determining whether the first service is authorized to access the file, wherein determining comprises unwrapping the data key with the private key of the first service; providing access to the first service when the private key of the first service successfully unwraps the data key for the file; and storing the encrypted file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Intralinks, Inc.
    Inventor: Mushegh Hakhinian
  • Information rights management offline file access facility
    Patent number: 10540511
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing secure offline file access utilizing information rights management (IRM) are provided herein. In some embodiments, the method may comprise storing one or more IRM-protected documents in a secure local storage on a user device; storing one or more consumption licenses associated with the one or more IRM-protected documents in the secure local storage on the user device, wherein the one or more consumption licenses is required to access one or more IRM-protected documents; detecting a loss of network connectivity on the user device; writing the one or more consumption licenses to an IRM location in memory on the user device; receiving a request to open a document of the one or more IRM-protected documents; reading the consumption license from the IRM location in memory; and enabling access to the requested IRM-protected document based on the consumption license.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Intralinks, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex Negrea, Constantin Miroslav, Ion Andrei Rînea
  • Email effectivity facilty in a networked secure collaborative exchange environment
    Patent number: 10356095
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for managing access to a secure exchange environment managed by an intermediate business entity through a user email identity, the method comprising establishing a secure exchange server hosted by an intermediate business entity, wherein communications and access to a collection of files established by a first business entity are managed for a second business entity; and establishing an email effectivity facility that allows a user of the first business entity to specify a condition for email-based access to at least one resource in the collection of files, wherein the condition expresses (a) an effective period for using an email providing access to the resource and (b) a condition of email access to the resource by a designated individual of the second business entity, wherein the access permission was assigned using a specific email address of the designated individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Intralinks, Inc.
    Inventor: Jerry Lee Meyer
  • Litigation support in cloud-hosted file sharing and collaboration
    Patent number: 10346937
    Abstract: In embodiments, the disclosure provides a method for managing content, including providing an electronic discovery facility of a secure data exchange environment, wherein at least one of a plurality of users of a first entity utilizes a network-based content storage service of a second entity to store content, and wherein the storage and access of the content with the network-based content storage service is tracked by the electronic discovery facility. The method includes receiving, at the electronic discovery facility, a discovery request, the discovery request comprising a request for a legal counsel of a third entity to access content stored on the network-based content storage service, the discovery request being, for example, in association with a litigation discovery action in relation to the first entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Intralinks, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Todd Ford
  • Computerized method and system for managing an email input facility in a networked secure collaborative exchange environment
    Patent number: 10142316
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for managing an email input facility in a networked secure collaborative computer data exchange environment, wherein a secure email input facility for accepting non-secure email from outside the exchange into the secure collaborative computer data exchange environment, wherein the non-secure email is received and the non-secure email and/or the content delivered thereby is stored as secure content in a location of the secure exchange server related to at least one of the sender of the email, the subject line of the non-secure email, the destination address of the email within the exchange, and the content of the email.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Intralinks, Inc.
    Inventors: William Huang, Liviu Rozin, James Andrew Fieweger
  • Systems and methods of secure data exchange
    Patent number: 10033702
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention, improved secure exchange system features include a federated search facility, hybrid encryption management (adjustable encryption key management), anonymous IRM, disassembled storage of data as chunks rather than files, asynchronous notification process/integrated file upload and messaging, an identity facility, multi-factor authentication, dynamic access authorization, and various enhancements to a customizable exchange system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Intralinks, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Todd Ford, Mayank Choudhary, Kevin L. McCarthy, Anupam Miharia, John William Giudice, Kiran Kumar Tadakamalla, Cole Parker Mercer, Peter Wenzel, Paul Teamen, Clement Cazalot, Salil J. Darji, Jonathan Gorin
  • System and method for managing collaboration in a networked secure exchange environment
    Patent number: 10013566
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for securely viewing computer data content, such as documents, presentations, spreadsheets, emails, blog entries, texts, and the like, wherein a secure exchange server is controlled by an intermediate business entity, and access to retention restricted computer data content is granted to a user of a second business entity when the secure exchange server receives appropriate login authentication data, wherein the retention restricted computer data content is accessible to the at least one user of the second business entity as limited by the content retention restriction, which is provided by a user of a third business entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Intralinks, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerry Lee Meyer, Sudhakar Velamoor, Mushegh Hakhinian
  • Systems and methods of secure data exchange
    Patent number: 9613190
    Abstract: An example method for managing digital rights management (DRM) protected content sharing in a networked secure collaborative computer data exchange environment includes establishing, by a secure exchange facility and managed by an intermediate organizational entity, a procedure that allows a user from a first entity to share access to computer data content with a user from a second entity based on indicated access rights. The method includes transforming the computer data content into DRM protected content, utilizing a DRM engine provided by a separate entity. The method includes granting access to the content to the second user, providing permissioned control to entities utilizing a number of data storage nodes, and managing secure data exchange of the content and metadata, without the secure exchange facility having access to the content. The method includes operations to support content services including data transformation, filtering, analytics, and searching tools for the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Intralinks, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Todd Ford, Visal Chandrakant Acharya, Richard David Anstey, Wasif Qayyum Awan, Amir M. Azmi, Selom Harry Azuma, Wade Michael Callison, Clement Cazalot, Mayank Choudhary, Peter W. Cleary, Benedict Robert Dsilva, Fuat Ertunc, Simon Genzer, John William Giudice, Douglas McLean Gordon, Jonathan Gorin, Mushegh Hakhinian, John Held, Ronald W. Hovsepian, Ganesh Kannan, John Landy, David Scott Lindsay, Dario R. Lirio, Himali Mahajan, Olivier Mangez, Kevin L. McCarthy, Kevin McNulty, Jerry Lee Meyer, Anupam Miharia, Constantin Miroslav, Andrew James Mitchell, Uli P. Mittermaier, Harshal Morparia, Alex Negrea, Yana Nikolayeva, Madhavi Parimi, Matthew A. Porzio, Vedang Shailesh Purohit, Liviu Rozin, Godsway Sappor, Glenn Schwartz, Fahim Siddiqui, Nanu Swamy, Paul Tearnen, Karla Toyloy-Mattera, Sudhakar Velamoor, Margin Vora, Michael Joseph Waluk, Charlie Weiblen, Peter Wenzel, Jeffery Chi Wong, Tony Yip, Khurram Ghafoor
  • Computerized method and system for managing an email input facility in a networked secure collaborative exchange environment
    Patent number: 9596227
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for managing an email input facility in a networked secure collaborative computer data exchange environment, wherein a secure email input facility for accepting non-secure email from outside the exchange into the secure collaborative computer data exchange environment, wherein the non-secure email is received and the non-secure email and/or the content delivered thereby is stored as secure content in a location of the secure exchange server related to at least one of the sender of the email, the subject line of the non-secure email, the destination address of the email within the exchange, and the content of the email.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Intralinks, Inc.
    Inventors: William Huang, Liviu Rozin, James Andrew Fieweger
  • Email effectivity facility in a networked secure collaborative exchange environment
    Patent number: 9553860
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for managing access to a secure exchange environment managed by an intermediate business entity through a user email identity, the method comprising establishing a secure exchange server hosted by an intermediate business entity, wherein communications and access to a collection of files established by a first business entity are managed for a second business entity; and establishing an email effectivity facility that allows a user of the first business entity to specify a condition for email-based access to at least one resource in the collection of files, wherein the condition expresses (a) an effective period for using an email providing access to the resource and (b) a condition of email access to the resource by a designated individual of the second business entity, wherein the access permission was assigned using a specific email address of the designated individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Intralinks, Inc.
    Inventor: Jerry Lee Meyer
  • System and method for managing collaboration in a networked secure exchange environment
    Patent number: 9547770
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for securely viewing computer data content, such as documents, presentations, spreadsheets, emails, blog entries, texts, and the like, wherein a secure exchange server is controlled by an intermediate business entity, and access to retention restricted computer data content is granted to a user of a second business entity when the secure exchange server receives appropriate login authentication data, wherein the retention restricted computer data content is accessible to the at least one user of the second business entity as limited by the content retention restriction, which is provided by a user of a third business entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Intralinks, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerry Lee Meyer, Sudhakar Velamoor, Mushegh Hakhinian
  • Litigation support in cloud-hosted file sharing and collaboration
    Patent number: 9514327
    Abstract: In embodiments, the disclosure provides a method for managing content, including providing an electronic discovery facility of a secure data exchange environment, wherein at least one of a plurality of users of a first entity utilizes a network-based content storage service of a second entity to store content, and wherein the storage and access of the content with the network-based content storage service is tracked by the electronic discovery facility. The method includes receiving, at the electronic discovery facility, a discovery request, the discovery request comprising a request for a legal counsel of a third entity to access content stored on the network-based content storage service, the discovery request being, for example, in association with a litigation discovery action in relation to the first entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Intralinks, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Todd Ford
  • Computerized method and system for managing secure content sharing in a networked secure collaborative exchange environment with customer managed keys
    Patent number: 9397998
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention, improved capabilities are described for securely sharing computer data content between business entities as managed through an intermediate business entity, where the secure sharing process utilizes encryption provided by the intermediate business entity but where the encryption keys used in the encryption are at least in part managed through one of the business entities as customer managed keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Intralinks, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Todd Ford, Wade Callison, Fahim Siddiqui, Mushegh Hakhinian
  • Computerized method and system for managing an email input facility in a networked secure collaborative exchange environment
    Patent number: 9369455
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for managing an email input facility in a networked secure collaborative computer data exchange environment, wherein a secure email input facility for accepting non-secure email from outside the exchange into the secure collaborative computer data exchange environment, wherein the non-secure email is received and the non-secure email and/or the content delivered thereby is stored as secure content in a location of the secure exchange server related to at least one of the sender of the email, the subject line of the non-secure email, the destination address of the email within the exchange, and the content of the email.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Intralinks, Inc.
    Inventors: William Huang, Liviu Rozin, James Andrew Fieweger
  • Computerized method and system for managing a community facility in a networked secure collaborative exchange environment
    Patent number: 9369454
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for managing a community facility in a networked secure collaborative computer data exchange environment, including providing an exchange community facility where each of a plurality of users operating a plurality of client computing devices is enabled to establish a corresponding informational profile that is made accessible to other users operating the plurality of client computing devices and is enabled to find and interact with the other users based on the informational profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Intralinks, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew A. Porzio, James Andrew Fieweger
  • Method and apparatus for managing access to electronic content
    Patent number: 9356936
    Abstract: According to at least one example embodiment, a method and corresponding content protection server for managing access to electronic content comprise retrieving access policies, or permissions, associated with a content item from a corresponding content sharing application, or rights issuer. The access policies are translated into a format recognizable by a digital rights management (DRM) engine, and forwarded to the DRM engine. The translated access policies are then provided by the DRM engine to a client device where the translated access policies are enforced in managing any potential access to the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Intralinks, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex Negrea, Dan Alexandru Gentea, Clement Cazalot, Uli P. Mittermaier
  • Computerized method and system for managing secure mobile device content viewing in a networked secure collaborative exchange environment
    Patent number: 9251360
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for securely viewing computer data content, such as documents, presentations, spreadsheets, emails, blog entries, texts, and the like, through a secure viewing facility, where the secure viewing facility utilizes a camera or other biometric sensor to monitor an authorized user's actions in the determination of whether the secure viewing facility will permit the computer data content to be viewed on the computer's display, and/or in the control of the viewing process itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Intralinks, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerry Lee Meyer, Sudhakar Durairaj, Mushegh Hakhinian
  • Computerized method and system for managing secure content sharing in a networked secure collaborative exchange environment
    Patent number: 9253176
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for securely sharing computer data content that allows for the secure un-sharing of the content. The facility to un-share content may be implemented through a secure exchange server, where the content is being shared along with a secure protection feature that when altered results in the un-sharing of the content. This secure un-sharing facility may be used to securely share content beyond the secure protective facilities of an enterprise, out to users in other companies, into the public space, to users not intended to get the content, and the like, where the sender maintains control to access of the content no matter where or to who the content has been distributed. In this way, the secure sharing of content is made to be easy across corporate boundaries at the user level and at the individual document level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Intralinks, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Ford, Wade Callison, Fahim Siddiqui, Mushegh Hakhinian