Securing backing storage data passed through a network

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9178694-B2
Application number	US-201414256616-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 18, 2014
Priority date	Apr 29, 2009
Publication date	Nov 3, 2015
Grant date	Nov 3, 2015

Abstract

Techniques described herein generally relate to methods, data processing devices and computer readable media to ensure that data stored in a remote backing storage device are in encrypted form before that data is transferred to another device or over a network. In some examples, the methods, data processing devices and computer readable media may be arranged to encrypt the data passed to the network when the data stored in the backing storage device is in unencrypted form. Also disclosed are methods, data processing devices and computer readable media that identify when the data stored in the backing storage device is in unencrypted form, including methods that may detect that the data may appear to be in encrypted form as a result of the data being compressed.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method to secure data read from a storage device before the data is passed to a network, comprising:
reading data from the storage device before the data is passed to the network;
examining, with an electronic device, the data read from the storage device to identify header information that indicates whether the data is either compressed or uncompressed;
identifying the data as either compressed or uncompressed based on the examination of the header information…

Assignees

• Empire Technology Dev Llc

Inventors

• Wolfe Andrew
• Conte Thomas Martin

Classifications

• H04L9/0631

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L9/00 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L2209/08

  Electricity · mapped topic