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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:
Mar. 24, 2015

Filed:

Apr. 02, 2008
Applicants:

Praveen Patnala, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Anand Parthasarathy, Fremont, CA (US);

Makarand Deshmukh, Cupertino, CA (US);

Chandra Sekhar Kondamuri, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Praveen Patnala, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Anand Parthasarathy, Fremont, CA (US);

Makarand Deshmukh, Cupertino, CA (US);

Chandra Sekhar Kondamuri, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/0822 (2013.01); H04L 9/0825 (2013.01); H04L 9/0836 (2013.01); H04L 9/0894 (2013.01);
Abstract

Efficient mechanisms are provided for transferring key objects associated with disk logical unit numbers and tape cartridges from one data center to another data center. A request is received to transfer a source data center key object from a source data center to a destination data center. The source data center key object corresponds to a data block, such as a disk logical unit number (LUN) or a tape cartridge, maintained in a storage area network (SAN) and includes a unique identifier, an encrypted key, and a wrapper unique identifier. The encrypted key is decrypted using a source data center key hierarchy. Key information is transmitted from the source data center to the destination data center. A destination data center key object is generated using a destination data center key hierarchy.


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