US 12,248,608 B2
Use of semantically segmented filenames
Lyle W. Paczkowski, Mission Hills, KS (US); and William M. Parsel, Overland Park, KS (US)
Assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC, Overland Park, KS (US)
Filed by T-Mobile Innovations LLC, Overland Park, KS (US)
Filed on Feb. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/172,298.
Application 18/172,298 is a division of application No. 16/789,008, filed on Feb. 12, 2020, granted, now 11,615,204.
Prior Publication US 2023/0205927 A1, Jun. 29, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 21/6245 (2013.01) [G06F 16/2255 (2019.01); G06F 16/2365 (2019.01); G06F 2221/2141 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of validating the contents of an electronic file, comprising:
requesting an electronic file by an application executing on a computer system by providing a multi-segment filename, wherein the multi-segment filename comprises a unique delimiter between each of the segments of the multi-segment filename and one of the segments of the multi-segment filename is a hash of a content of the electronic file referenced by the multi-segment filename;
receiving by the application the electronic file referenced by the multi-segment filename;
determining a hash over the content of the electronic file by the application;
comparing by the application the determined hash by the application to the hash of the content stored in the one of the segments of the multi-segment filename; and
based on the two hashes agreeing, opening by the application the contents of the electronic file for use.