Method for secure and private computer file

• US 9,390,284 B1
• Filed: 04/03/2015
• Issued: 07/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Andrew Borwei Wang, Borwyn Anne Wang, Wang, Ray
• Original Assignee: Andrew Borwei Wang, Borwyn Anne Wang, Wang, Ray
• Inventors: Wang, Ray, WANG, Borwyn Anne, Wang, Andrew Borwei
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Chau
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jamshidi, Ghodrat
• Application Number:
  US14/678,154
• Time in Patent Office: 466 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6209 to a single file or object, e.g. in a secure envelope, encrypted and accessed using a key, or with access control rules appended to the object itself
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database

Abstract

A method to guard the integrity of information after transferred over Internet and stored on to other computing devices. The method takes a target computer file that requires the protection then adds and/or binds security and privacy protection parameters through a file transfer process which converts the computer file to a self-manageable secured private executable file.

Claims

1. A method for secure and private computer file information protection, comprising:

receiving a protection request on a file protection coder application in a non-statutory computer readable medium on a network device with one or more processors to protect a computer file on the network device;

receiving on the file protection coder application a set of file protection parameters to protect the computer file including a file creation time, a file current source location, a file intended location and a file life span,

wherein each file protection parameter includes one or more specific actions to complete when any of the set of file protection parameters is violated and

wherein the one or more specific actions include, close file, lock file, delete file and track and report a new file location;

receiving on the file protection coder application location information for the computer file,

wherein the location information includes a current location of the computer file and an intended location for the computer file on a communications network;

validating on the file protection code application with the received location information a current location or intended location for the computer file;

sending from the file protection coder application to a file translator application the received file protection parameters and the validated received location information,

wherein the file translator application inserts the received file protection parameters and the validated received location information into a private file data structure with a pre-determined layout, attaches the private file data structure to the computer file and compiles the computer file with the attached private data structure into a private executable and secure computer file,

wherein the original file has been transformed into a private executable and secure computer file that is self-managing with the received file protection parameters and the validated received location information, and

wherein the complied private executable and secure computer file includes a binary format comprising an object code or byte code format; and

receiving on the file protection coder application from the file translator application the private executable and secure computer file, wherein the private executable and secure computer file is accessible on the network device via the communications network by other network devices.

2. The method for secure and private computer file in accordance with claim 1, wherein the network devices include:

computers, notebooks, netbooks, pads, multimedia capable desktop and laptop computers, tablet computers, facsimile machines, mobile phones, non-mobile phones with and without displays, three-dimensional (3D) printer, robots, smart phones, Internet phones, Internet appliances, personal digital/data assistants (PDA), two-way pagers, digital cameras, portable game consoles, non-portable game, cable television (CATV) set-top boxes, satellite television (SATV) set-top boxes, Internet television set-top boxes, digital televisions including high definition television (HDTV), three-dimensional (3DTV) televisions, wearable devices for medical or non-medical usage, treadmills, exercise bicycles, remote controls and disposable network devices.

3. The method for secure and private computer file in accordance with claim 1, wherein the location information includes:

an Internet Protocol (IP) address, a Media Access Control (MAC) address, a network device identifier, an alphabetic name, city, zip code, country code, or a numeric expression.

4. The method for secure and private computer file in accordance with claim 1, wherein the communications network includes, an Internet network, cellular network, a cloud computing network or a non-cloud computing network accessed via one or more wired or wireless communications interfaces on the network device.

5. The method for secure and private computer file in accordance with claim 1, wherein the private executable and secure computer file comprises an executable program that causes the one or more processors on the network device to execute instructions encoded included in the executable program.

6. The method for secure and private computer file in accordance with claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an access request on a file protection decoder application in the non-statutory computer readable medium on the network device to access the private executable and secure computer file on the network device;

executing from file protection decoder application the private executable and secure computer file;

determining on the file protection decoder application whether required resources on the network device are available to access the access the private executable and secure computer file on the network device, and if so,

determining on the file protection decoder application with the private file data structure attached to the computer file in the private executable and secure computer file on the network device, whether any of the file protection parameters have been violated, and if so,

completing on the file protection decoder application one or more of the specific actions included in the private file data structure attached to the computer file for any of the violated file protection parameters.

7. The method for secure and private computer file in accordance with claim 6, wherein wherein accessing the private executable and secure computer file on the network device includes opening or copying the private executable and secure computer file on the private network device.

8. The method for secure and private computer file of claim 6, wherein the required resources on the network device include a clock, a storage medium, an input and output device, and a network connection to the communications network.

9. The method for secure and private computer file of claim 6 further comprising:

determining on the file protection decoder application whether required resources on the network device are available to access the access the private executable and secure computer file on the network device, and if so,

determining on the file protection decoder application with the private file data structure attached to the computer file in the private executable and secure computer file on the network device, whether any of the file protection parameters have been violated, and if not,

allowing access from the file protection decoder application to the computer file in the private executable and secure computer file on the network device.

10. The method of for secure and private computer file of claim 9 wherein the step of allowing access including opening or copying the computer file in the private executable and secure computer file with the file protection decoder application on the network device.

11. The method for secure and private computer file of claim 6 further comprising:

determining on the file protection decoder application whether required resources on the network device are available to access the access the private executable and secure computer file on the network device, and if so,

determining on the file protection decoder application with the private file data structure attached to the computer file in the private executable and secure computer file on the network device, whether the file life span parameter has been exceeded, and if so,

deleting from the file protection decoder application on the network device the private executable and secure computer file including the computer file.

12. The method for secure and private computer file of claim 6 further comprising:

determining on a second file protection decoder application in a second non-statutory computer readable medium on a second network device with one or more processors whether required resources are available on the second network device to access the access the private executable and secure computer file on the network device, and if so,

determining on the second file protection decoder application with the private file data structure attached to the computer file in the private executable and secure computer file on the network device, whether the report a new file location file parameter has been changed, and if so,

sending a change of location message from second file protection decoder application on the second network device to the file protection decoder application on the network device via the communications network indicating that the private executable and secure computer file has been re-located to the second network device from the network device.

13. The method for secure and private computer file of claim 6 further comprising:

determining on the file protection decoder application, whether required resources on the network device are available to access the access the private executable and secure computer file on the network device, and if not,

denying allowing access from the file protection decoder application to the computer file in the private executable and secure computer file on the network device.

14. The method for secure and private computer file of claim 6 wherein the self-managing private executable and secure computer file includes a “

read only”

file that cannot be printed, copied, or edited during the execution of the private executable and secure computer file by the file protection decoder application on the network device.

15. The method for secure and private computer file of claim 6 further comprising the private executable and secure computer file including the file protection decoder application as a software function, software module or a software subroutine within the private executable and secure computer file.

16. The method for secure and private computer file of claim 1 wherein the computer file includes a text file, Portable Document Format (PDF) file, image file or mark-up language file.

17. The method for secure and private computer file of claim 1 wherein the private executable and secure computer file is self-manageable with the set of file protection parameters in the private file data structure attached to the original file in the private executable and secure computer file.

18. A system for secure and private computer file information protection, comprising in combination:

a file protection coder application in a non-statutory computer readable medium on a network device with one or more processors;

a file translator application in the non-statutory computer readable medium on the network device; and

a file protection decoder application in the non-statutory computer readable medium on the network device;

the file protection coder application, the file protection decoder application and the file protection decoder application including a plurality of instructions for causing the one or more processors on the network device to execute the steps of;

receiving a protection request on a file protection coder application in a non-statutory computer readable medium on a network device with one or more processors to protect a computer file on the network device;

receiving on the file protection coder application a set of file protection parameters to protect the computer file including a file creation time, a file current source location, a file intended location and a file life span,

wherein each file protection parameter includes one or more specific actions to complete when any of the set of file protection parameters is violated and

wherein the one or more specific actions include, close file, lock file, delete file and track and report a new file location;

receiving on the file protection coder application location information for the computer file,

wherein the location information includes a current location of the computer file and an intended location for the computer file on a communications network;

validating on the file protection code application with the received location information a current location or intended location for the computer file;

sending from the file protection coder application to a file translator application the received file protection parameters and the validated received location information,

wherein the file translator application inserts the received file protection parameters and the validated received location information into a private file data structure with a pre-determined layout, attaches the private file data structure to the computer file and compiles the computer file with the attached private data structure into a private executable and secure computer file,

wherein the original file has been transformed into a private executable and secure computer file that is self-managing with the received file protection parameters and the validated received location information, and

wherein the complied private executable and secure computer file includes a binary format comprising an object code or byte code format;

receiving on the file protection coder application from the file translator application the private executable and secure computer file, wherein the private executable and secure computer file is accessible on the network device via the communications network by other network devices;

receiving an access request on a file protection decoder application in the non-statutory computer readable medium on the network device to access the private executable and secure computer file on the network device;

executing from file protection decoder application the private executable and secure computer file; and

determining on the file protection decoder application whether required resources on the network device are available to access the access the private executable and secure computer file on the network device, and if so,

determining on the file protection decoder application with the private file data structure attached to the computer file in the private executable and secure computer file on the network device, whether any of the file protection parameters have been violated, and if so,

completing from the file protection decoder application one or more of the specific actions included in the private file data structure attached to the computer file for any of the violated file protection parameters, and

denying access from the file protection decoder application to the original file included the private executable and secure computer file on the network device,

and if not,

allowing access from the file protection decoder application to the original file included the private executable and secure computer file on the network device.