Micro Focus Software Assigned Patent

Micro Focus Software Inc., Wilmington, DE, has been assigned a patent (9,658,891) developed by Carter, Stephen R., Spanish Fork, UT, McClain, Carolyn Bennion, Springville, UT, Allen, Jared Patrick, Sandy, UT, Olds, Dale Robert, Draper, UT, and Burch, Lloyd Leon, Payson, UT, for a “system and method for providing key-encrypted storage in a cloud computing environment.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “System and method for providing cloud computing services are described. In one embodiment, the system comprises a cloud computing environment comprising resources for supporting cloud workloads, each cloud workload having associated therewith an internal cloud address, and a routing system disposed between external workloads of an external computing environment and the cloud workloads, the routing system for directing traffic from an external address to the internal cloud addresses of the cloud workloads. A designated one of the cloud workloads obtains one key of a first pair of cryptographic keys, the first pair of cryptographic keys for decrypting encrypted storage hosted within the cloud computing environment.“

The patent application was filed on November 5, 2009 (12/613,098).