Appeal 2007-1241
Application 09/794,486
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced below as best
representative of the disclosed and claimed invention:
1. A method of a securely storing data at a remote location
comprising:
establishing a communication link between a user computing device
and a server located remotely from said user computing device;
transmitting information from said user computing device to said
server which identifies a user of the user computing device;
transmitting user data which the user wishes to be remotely stored
from the user computing device to the server via the communication link;
associating identifying information regarding the user with the
transmitted data once the transmitted user data has been received by said
server;
obtaining encryption key information from said user for use in
encrypting said user data;
encrypting the transmitted user data at said server with a key based
upon said encryption key information obtained from said user;
identifying said keys as said user’s key and storing said key at a data
storage device of said server for later use in decrypting said user data; and
storing the encrypted transmitted user data and associated identifying
information at said data storage device, whereby said identifying
information can be utilized to identify said user data at a later time.
The following references are relied on by the Examiner:
Ballantyne US 5,867,821 Feb. 2, 1999
Chapman US 6,173,402 B1 Jan. 9, 2001
(filed Mar. 4, 1998)
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