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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:
Sep. 03, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2021
Applicant:
Whitestar Communications, Inc., Durham, NC (US);
Inventors:
Billy Gayle Moon, Apex, NC (US);
William Victor Moon, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Assignee:
WhiteStar Communications, Inc., Durham, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/40 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/108 (2013.01); H04L 63/0442 (2013.01); H04L 63/068 (2013.01); H04L 63/1416 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method comprises: securing, by a security agent executed within a network device, first secure data structures for secure storage in the network device and second secure data structures for secure communications in a secure peer-to-peer data network; monitoring, by the security agent, a corresponding mandatory lifecycle policy for each of the first secure data structures; and cryptographically erasing one of the first secure data structures in response to expiration of the corresponding mandatory lifecycle policy.