ROTATING ENCRYPTION IN DATA FORWARDING STORAGE

• US 20110173290A1
• Filed: 09/25/2009
• Published: 07/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Distributed Media Solutions, LLC (IP Investments Group LLC)
• Original Assignee: Tajitshu Transfer LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Merritt, Edward, Fein, Gene
• Granted Patent: US 8,489,687 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/212
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 Routing a service request depending on the request content or context

Abstract

A method includes receiving a request from a source system to store data, directing the data to a computer memory, the computer memory employing an encryption scheme, and continuously forwarding the data from one computer memory to another computer memory in the network of interconnected computer system nodes without storing on any physical storage device in the network, each computer memory employing the encryption scheme. The continuously forwarding includes determining an address of a node available to receive the data based on one or more factors, sending a message to the source system with the address of a specific node for the requester to forward the data, detecting a presence of the data in memory of the specific node, and forwarding the data to another computer memory of a node in the network of interconnected computer system nodes without storing any physical storage device.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. A method comprising:

receiving, at a computing system, a request to store a data item in a network of interconnected computer system nodes, wherein the computer system nodes utilize one or more encryption schemes;

initiating, by the computing system, forwarding of the data item between computer system nodes in the network, wherein said forwarding comprises;

identifying a computer system node available to receive the data item; and

initiating transmission of the data item to the identified computer system node, wherein the data item is transmitted between computer system nodes without storing the data item on any fixed storage medium in the network.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein each of the one or more computer system nodes utilizes a same encryption scheme.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein said initiating forwarding of the data item comprises:

determining an encryption scheme to be used by the identified computer system node.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein said initiating forwarding of the data item comprises:

determining an encryption scheme currently used by the identified computer system node.

25. The method of claim 23, wherein said determining the encryption scheme comprises:

determining an encryption scheme associated with an owner of the data item.

26. The method of claim 23, wherein said determining the encryption scheme comprises:

determining an encryption scheme associated with a type of the data item.

27. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

transmitting to a first one or more of the computer system nodes an indication of a first encryption scheme to be utilized by the first one or more computer system nodes.

28. The method of claim 27, further comprising:

transmitting to a second one or more of the computer system nodes an indication of a second encryption scheme to be utilized by the second one or more computer system nodes.

29. The method of claim 27, wherein said transmitting is performed periodically in order to periodically change encryption schemes used by the first one or more computer system nodes.

30. The method of claim 21, wherein the encryption schemes are selected from a simple conversion encryption scheme, a network tools encryption scheme, a non-key En/EeCryption scheme, a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) Encoding scheme, a Hash Algorithm scheme, a key En/DeCryption scheme, or a time Conversion encryption scheme.

31. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

receiving a request to retrieve the data item being forwarded between computer system nodes in the network; and

requesting retrieval of the data item from one or more computer system nodes.

32. A computing system comprising:

one or more processors configured to execute instructions;

a computer readable medium storing instructions configured for execution by the one or more processors in order to cause the computing system to;

receive a request to store a data item in a network of interconnected computer system nodes, wherein the computer system nodes utilize one or more encryption schemes;

initiate forwarding of the data item between computer system nodes in the network, wherein said forwarding comprises;

identifying a computer system node available to receive the data item; and

initiating transmission of the data item to the identified computer system node, wherein the data item is transmitted between computer system nodes without storing the data item on any fixed storage medium in the network.

33. The computing system of claim 32, wherein said initiating forwarding of the data item comprises:

determining an encryption scheme to be used by the identified computer system node.

34. The computing system of claim 33, wherein said determining the encryption scheme comprises:

determining an encryption scheme associated with an owner of the data item.

35. The computing system of claim 33, wherein said determining the encryption scheme comprises:

determining an encryption scheme associated with a type of the data item.

36. The computing system of claim 32, further comprising:

transmitting to a first one or more of the computer system nodes an indication of a first encryption scheme to be utilized by the first one or more computer system nodes.

37. The computing system of claim 36, wherein said transmitting is performed periodically in order to periodically change encryption schemes used by the first one or more computer system nodes.

38. A tangible computer-readable medium having instructions encoded thereon, wherein the instructions are readable by a computing system in order to cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:

receiving, at a computing system, a request to store a data item in a network of interconnected computer system nodes, wherein the computer system nodes utilize one or more encryption schemes;

initiating, by the computing system, forwarding of the data item between computer system nodes in the network, wherein said forwarding comprises;

identifying a computer system node available to receive the data item; and

initiating transmission of the data item to the identified computer system node, wherein the data item is transmitted between computer system nodes without storing the data item on any fixed storage medium in the network.

39. The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 38, wherein said initiating forwarding of the data item comprises:

determining an encryption scheme to be used by the identified computer system node.

40. The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 39, wherein said determining the encryption scheme comprises:

determining an encryption scheme associated with an owner of the data item.