British Telecommunications Public Assigned Patent

British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, Great Britain, has been assigned a patent (10,719,346) developed by El-Moussa, Fadi, and Dimitrakos, Theo, London, Great Britain, for a “disk encryption.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A computer implemented method of providing whole disk encryption for a virtualized computer system including providing a software component executing in a first virtual machine for instantiation in a first hypervisor, the software component invoking a second hypervisor within the first virtual machine for instantiating a disk image of the virtualized computer system as a second virtual machine, and the software component being configured to install a software agent in the second virtual machine, the software agent being adapted to: (a) encrypt the instantiated disk image, (b) encrypt data written, by the second virtual machine, to the instantiated disk image at a runtime of the second virtual machine, and (c) decrypt data read, by the second virtual machine, from the instantiated disk image at a runtime of the second virtual machine, wherein the software component is configured to migrate the second virtual machine at a runtime of the second virtual machine to the first hypervisor so as to provide a wholly encrypted disk image for the second virtual machine executing in the first hypervisor.”

The patent application was filed on January 26, 2017 (16/073,424).