ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,642, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Identity based hierarchical sessions" was invented by Volker Urban (Boblingen, Germany), Tamas Visegrady (Zurich), Reinhard Theodor Buendgen (Tuebingen, Germany), Michael D. Hocker (Staatsburg, N.Y.) and Eric David Rossman (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for establishing identity-based hierarchical sessions on a hardware security module (HSM) for binding secure keys to a guest system, is disclosed. The present invention may include est...