ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,404, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Secure data migration" was invented by Prasad Peddada (Alameda, Calif.) and Taher Elgamal (Atherton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to secure data migration between different data zones via a message broker system for asynchronous communication. A migration policy engine is used to determine allowable data migrations. If a data migration is permitted, a set of data in the source data zone is encrypted using a symmetric key that is generated using a key agreement protocol that utilizes a public key of a data zone key pa...