Cavium Assigned Two Patents

Securing data stored at storage area network
Cavium, LLC, Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,129,219) developed by Paul, Somnath, Fremont, CA, Klemin, Bruce A., Rocklin, CA, and Jammula, Muralidhar, Saratoga, CA, for “methods and systems for securing data stored at a storage area network.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Methods and systems for securing data are provided. For example, one method includes providing context information for an input/output, (I/O) operation to a security module by an adapter communicating with a computing device and a storage device via a network, storing encryption parameters associated to a security association handle by the security module, using a workflow handle by the security module to obtain the security association handle for retrieving stored encryption parameters for encrypting payload transmitted by the adapter and for decrypting payload received by the adapter, predicting a first frame header for encrypting the payload transmitted by the adapter and a second frame header for decrypting payload received by the adapter, providing the encrypted payload for transmission to the adapter by the security module, after discarding the first predicted header, and providing the decrypted payload to the computing device by the security module, after discarding the second predicted header.”

The patent application was filed on May 31, 2016 (15/169,466).

Defining storage
Cavium, LLC, Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,129,162) developed by Faulk, Jr., Robert Lee, Roseville, CA, for “systems and methods for defining storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “System and methods are provided for providing modular control of network data packet handling and configurations. In one aspect, a storage-to-network mapping data structure is provided that can translate network connection parameters into high level, searchable concepts. In turn, these searchable concepts can be used by one or more modular software-defined storage applications to provide rules for network traffic handling that can then be merged into a dataplane forwarding data structure for implementation by a dataplane forwarder.”

The patent application was filed on May 19, 2015 (14/716,689).