US Patent Issued to Oracle International on May 20 for "Hierarchical key management for cross-region replication" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,802, issued on May 20, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Hierarchical key management for cross-region replication" was invented by Vikram Singh Bisht (Seattle), Satish Kumar Kashi Visvanathan (San Jose, Calif.), Haoran Qi (San Francisco) and Viggnesh Venugopal (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel techniques are described for performing hierarchical key management involving an end-to-end file storage replication between different cloud infrastructure regions. The novel hierarchical key management comprises three different keys, a first security key for the source region, a sessi...