Intel Assigned Patent

Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA has been assigned a patent (8,209,551) developed by Yen Hsiang Chew, Penang, Malaysia, and Subhankar Panda, Bangalore, India, for a "security for RAID systems."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus for accessing a redundant array of independent drives (RAID) storage device are disclosed. In some embodiments file data is broken into multiple segments. A cryptographic operation is performed on one or more segments to generate encrypted segment(s). One or more parity syndrome is computed from the encrypted segment(s) and the unencrypted segment(s). The encrypted segment(s), the unencrypted segment(s) and the parity syndrome(s) are striped onto different individual drives. Since the cryptographic operation is not performed on all the segments, it may also be performed concurrently with computing of parity syndrome(s) from other unencrypted segments."

The patent application was filed on Feb. 15, 2008 (12/032,554).