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Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012

Filed:

Nov. 05, 2009
Applicants:

Stephen R. Carter, Spanish Fork, UT (US);

Carolyn Bennion Mcclain, Springville, UT (US);

Jared Patrick Allen, Sandy, UT (US);

Dale Robert Olds, Draper, UT (US);

Lloyd Leon Burch, Payson, UT (US);

Jaimon Jose, Bangalore, IN;

Inventors:

Stephen R. Carter, Spanish Fork, UT (US);

Carolyn Bennion McClain, Springville, UT (US);

Jared Patrick Allen, Sandy, UT (US);

Dale Robert Olds, Draper, UT (US);

Lloyd Leon Burch, Payson, UT (US);

Jaimon Jose, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

Novell, Inc., Prov, UT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

System and method for transparent cloud access are described. In one embodiment, the system comprises an enterprise computing environment maintained by an enterprise and a cloud computing environment maintained by a cloud provider; and a secure bridge mechanism for interconnecting the enterprise computing environment and the cloud computing environment. The secure bridge mechanism comprises a first secure bridge portion associated with the enterprise and a second secure bridge portion associated with the cloud computing environment. The first and second secure bridge portions interoperate to provide transparent and secure access by resources of one of the computing environments to those of the other computing environment.


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