ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,054, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Data protection implemented by container lifecycle hooks" was invented by Yi Yuan (Beijing), Lu Lu (Beijing) and Xiao Hu He (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method, computer system and computer program product for data protection. According to the method, a first container may be created before an application container is ready for running. The first container is configured to: receive a first key from a key management device; obtain first encrypted data for the application contain...