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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2008

Filed:

Jan. 17, 2001
Applicants:

James Russell Godwin, Raleigh, NC (US);

Linwood H. Overby, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);

Inventors:

James Russell Godwin, Raleigh, NC (US);

Linwood H. Overby, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Methods, systems and computer program products provide Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) to a plurality of target hosts in a cluster of data processing systems which communicate with a network through a routing communication protocol stack utilizing a dynamically routable Virtual Internet Protocol Address (DVIPA) by negotiating security associations (SAs) associated with the DVIPA utilizing an Internet Key Exchange (IKE) component associated with the routing communication protocol stack and distributing information about the negotiated SAs to the target hosts so as to allow the target hosts to perform IPSec processing of communications from the network utilizing the negotiated SAs.


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