US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Oct. 28 for "Techniques for efficient encryption and decryption during file system cross-region replication" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,861, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques for efficient encryption and decryption during file system cross-region replication" was invented by Satish Kumar Kashi Visvanathan (San Jose, Calif.), Viggnesh Venugopal (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Vikram Singh Bisht (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for a hierarchical caching mechanism enabling efficient cross-region replications. In some embodiments, replication-related information (e.g., key-value pairs) is stored in a particular layout in a binary tree (B-tree) of a file system for replication pro...