Patents by Inventor Stephen M. Hopkins

Stephen M. Hopkins 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).

  • Data deduplication and compression evaluation methods and systems
    Patent number: 10291393
    Abstract: Deduplication and compression evaluation methods and systems involve one or more processors obfuscating plain text file data in each file of a computer file system using a first cipher encryption scheme, obfuscating each plain text file name representing the plain text file data in each file of the computer file system using a second cipher encryption scheme, and associating each obfuscated file name representing the plain text file data of each of the plurality of files of the computer file system with the obfuscated file data of each of the plurality of files of the computer system. In addition, each plain text directory name for each of the obfuscated file names associated with the obfuscated file data in each of the plurality of files of the computer file system is obfuscated using a third cipher encryption scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: CITIGROUP TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Donald Joseph Molaro, Stephen M. Hopkins, Chris Howarth
  • Data deduplication and compression evaluation methods and systems
    Patent number: 10075291
    Abstract: Deduplication and compression evaluation methods and systems involve one or more processors obfuscating plain text file data in each file of a computer file system using a first cipher encryption scheme, obfuscating each plain text file name representing the plain text file data in each file of the computer file system using a second cipher encryption scheme, and associating each obfuscated file name representing the plain text file data of each of the plurality of files of the computer file system with the obfuscated file data of each of the plurality of files of the computer system. In addition, each plain text directory name for each of the obfuscated file names associated with the obfuscated file data in each of the plurality of files of the computer file system is obfuscated using a third cipher encryption scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: CITIGROUP TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Donald Joseph Molaro, Stephen M. Hopkins, Chris Howarth