Patents by Inventor Xiaolu Hou

Xiaolu Hou 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).

  • Systems and methods for performing secure computing while maintaining data confidentiality
    Patent number: 11544389
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and method for performing secure computing while maintaining data confidentiality. In one exemplary aspect, a method receives, via an application, both data and a request to perform a secure operation on the data, wherein the secure operation is to be performed using a secure compute engine on a cloud platform such that the data is not viewable to a provider of the cloud platform. The method applies transformations to the data so that the data is not viewable to the provider. The method transmits the transformed data to the secure compute engine on the cloud platform to perform the secure operation on the transformed data, receives a result of the secure operation from the secure compute engine, and transmits the result to the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Acronis International GmbH
    Inventors: Sivanesan Kailash Prabhu, Mark Will, Sanjeev Solanki, Aarthi Kannan, Xiaolu Hou, Serguei Beloussov, Stanislav Protasov
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING SECURE COMPUTING WHILE MAINTAINING DATA CONFIDENTIALITY
    Publication number: 20210286883
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and method for performing secure computing while maintaining data confidentiality. In one exemplary aspect, a method receives, via an application, both data and a request to perform a secure operation on the data, wherein the secure operation is to be performed using a secure compute engine on a cloud platform such that the data is not viewable to a provider of the cloud platform. The method applies transformations to the data so that the data is not viewable to the provider. The method transmits the transformed data to the secure compute engine on the cloud platform to perform the secure operation on the transformed data, receives a result of the secure operation from the secure compute engine, and transmits the result to the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Sivanesan Kailash Prabhu, Mark Will, Sanjeev Solanki, Aarthi Kannan, Xiaolu Hou, Serguei Beloussov, Stanislav Protasov