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Computerized method and system for managing secure content sharing in a networked secure collaborative exchange environment with customer managed keys

  • US 9,654,450 B2
  • Filed: 06/10/2016
  • Issued: 05/16/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for managing a networked secure collaborative computer data exchange environment, the method comprising:

  • establishing, by a secure exchange server managed by an intermediate business entity, a user login data authentication procedure that allows a user through at least one client computing device to access the secure exchange server, wherein the user is one of a plurality of users of a plurality of other business entities and communications between the secure exchange server and the plurality of users are through a communications network;

    storing, by the secure exchange server, at least one user login authentication data for at least one of the plurality of users;

    receiving and storing at the exchange server an encrypted computer data content from a first of the plurality of users of a first business entity wherein the encrypted computer data content is encrypted using a selected encryption protocol employing encryption keys managed by the first business entity, wherein the first of the plurality of users permits a sharing access to the encrypted computer data content to at least a second of the plurality of users of a second business entity, and wherein management for access to the computer data content is through an exchange content access facility managed by the intermediate business entity, wherein the first business entity manages its own encryption keys for use in encrypting computer data content; and

    granting, by the secure exchange server, sharing access to the computer data content to the at least second of the plurality of users when the secure exchange server receives a client login authentication data from the second of the plurality of users.

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