ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,796, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Secure memory sharing" was invented by Steven Robert Hetzler (Los Altos, Calif.), Guerney D. H. Hunt (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Charles R. Johns (Austin, Texas) and James A. Kahle (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes, receiving, by a source node, a request from a destination node for data stored in a region of shared memory controlled by the source node. The data is encrypted in a local key of the source node. The method includes decrypting, by the source node, the locally encrypted data using ...