Patent 9047480 was granted and assigned to Bitglass on June, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A proxy server creates an index of keywords, receives at least a portion of a file, and, when a keyword in the index is encountered in the at least a portion of the file as the at least a portion of the file is being encrypted, associates in the index an encrypted record location identifier with the encountered keyword. The proxy server receives a search query and uses the keyword index to retrieve encrypted records from the server. The encrypted records are decrypted and sent as search results in response to the search query.