US 12,206,434 B1
Obfuscating data in distributed data storage systems and network communications
Robert W. Twitchell, Jr., St. Pete Beach, FL (US)
Assigned to CODE-X, INC., St. Petersburg, FL (US)
Filed by CODE-X, INC., St. Petersburg, FL (US)
Filed on Feb. 14, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/441,267.
Application 18/441,267 is a continuation of application No. 18/092,897, filed on Jan. 3, 2023, granted, now 11,949,431.
Application 18/092,897 is a continuation in part of application No. 18/091,275, filed on Dec. 29, 2022, granted, now 11,924,095, issued on Mar. 5, 2024.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H03M 13/00 (2006.01); H03M 13/15 (2006.01)
CPC H03M 13/154 (2013.01) 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed at a first networked electronic device for communicating a data block to a second networked electronic device, comprising:
(a) using erasure code, encoding a data block of the information to generate an encoded data block comprising both parity data and the data block;
(b) making alterations to a subset of the encoded data block such that the data block cannot be decoded using the erasure code, the subset comprising less than all of the data block;
(c) communicating to the second networked electronic device the altered subset of the encoded data block by sending the altered subset of the encoded data block within one or more data packets over a network to the second networked electronic device; and
(d) communicating to the second networked electronic device information for reversing the alterations made to the subset of the encoded data block whereby the alterations made are reversed and the data block is decoded from the encoded data block by the second networked electronic device using the erasure code.