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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2015
Applicant:
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Michael Nossik, Ottawa, CA;
Timothy Roger Masson Bramble, Carp, CA;
Murray McCulligh, Ottawa, CA;
Yuri Berfeld, Ottawa, CA;
Lejin Du, Kanata, CA;
Assignee:
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0823 (2013.01); G06F 9/4406 (2013.01); G06F 9/4416 (2013.01); G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 21/575 (2013.01); H04L 63/061 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45575 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45587 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method is disclosed for executing a secure virtual machine stored in encrypted form in IaaS cloud such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services. A first execution environment comprising a key access protocol for accessing a cipher key is initiated. The first execution environment executes the secure virtual machine by accessing a secret for use in deciphering the encrypted form of the secure virtual machine and providing same to allow the secure virtual machine to be executed.