Rotating encryption in data forwarding storage

• US 7,636,759 B1
• Filed: 09/29/2008
• Issued: 12/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Distributed Media Solutions, LLC (IP Investments Group LLC)
• Original Assignee: Edward Merritt, Gene Fein
• Inventors: Merritt, Edward, Fein, Gene
• Primary Examiner(s): DENNISON, JERRY B
• Application Number:
  US12/240,951
• Time in Patent Office: 449 Days
• Field of Search: 709/251, 709/212, 710/100
• 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. A method comprising:

in a network of interconnected computer system nodes, receiving a request from a source system to store at least one data item;

directing the at least one data item to a node, the node employing an encryption scheme;

in response to the request from the source system, continuously forwarding the at least one data item among the nodes in the network of interconnected computer system nodes without storing the at least one data item on any fixed storage medium in the network, the forwarded at least one data item being constantly routed within the network from node to node, each node employing the encryption scheme, the forwarded at least one data item being available for retrieval if a request to retrieve the at least one data item is received, the continuously forwarding comprising;

determining an address of a node available to receive the at least one data item based on one or more factors;

sending a message to the source system with the address of a specific node;

detecting a presence of the at least one data item at the specific node; and

forwarding the at least one data item to another node in the network of interconnected computer system nodes without storing the forwarded at least one data item on any fixed storage medium.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the one or more factors comprise network traffic analysis and available memory.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the encryption scheme is controlled and periodically changed by a central server in the network.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the central server changes the encryption scheme in response to a type of the at least one data item or an owner of the at least one data item.

5. The method of claim 3 wherein the central server changes the encryption scheme for one or more users or one or more computer system nodes.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the encryption scheme is a simple conversion encryption scheme, network tools encryption scheme, non-key En/EeCryption scheme, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) Encoding scheme, Hash Algorithm scheme, key En/DeCryption scheme, or time Conversion encryption scheme.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a request from the source system to retrieve the at least one data item being continuously forwarded in the network of interconnected computer system nodes; and

retrieving the at least one data item from a node in response to the request to retrieve the at least one data item.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein retrieving comprises:

matching the data item request at a central server using a hash mark representing the data item entering a node;

sending a message to a node that is predicted to have the data item, the message instructing the node to forward the data item to the source system; and

sending a confirmation message to the central server that the data item has been forwarded to the source system.

9. A tangible computer readable medium embodying instructions for causing a data processing apparatus to perform a method for storing data items in a network of interconnected computer system nodes, the method comprising:

receiving a request from a source system to store at least one data item;

directing the at least one data item to a node, the node employing an encryption scheme;

in response to the request from the source system, continuously forwarding the at least one data item among the nodes in the network of interconnected computer system nodes without storing the forwarded at least one data item on any fixed storage medium in the network, the forwarded at least one data item being constantly routed within the network from node to node, each node employing the encryption scheme, the forwarded at least one data item being available for retrieval if a request to retrieve the at least one data item is received, the continuously forwarding comprising;

determining an address of a node available to receive the at least one data item based on one or more factors;

sending a message to the source system with the address of a specific node;

detecting a presence of the at least one data item at the specific node; and

forwarding the at least one data item to another node in the network of interconnected computer system nodes without storing the forwarded at least one data item on any fixed storage medium.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 9 wherein the one or more factors comprise network traffic analysis and available memory.

11. The computer readable medium of claim 9 wherein the encryption scheme is controlled and periodically changed by a central server in the network.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 11 wherein the central server changes the encryption scheme in response to a type of the data item or an owner of the data item.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 9 wherein the encryption scheme is a simple conversion encryption scheme, network tools encryption scheme, non-key En/EeCryption scheme, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) Encoding scheme, Hash Algorithm scheme, key En/DeCryption scheme, or time Conversion encryption scheme.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 9 wherein the method further comprises:

receiving a request from the source system to retrieve the at least one data item being continuously forwarded in the network of interconnected computer system nodes; and

retrieving the at least one data item from a node in response to the request to retrieve the at least one data item.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 14 wherein retrieving comprises:

matching the data item request at a central server using a hash mark representing the at least one data item entering a node;

sending a message to a node that is predicted to have the at least one data item, the message instructing the node to forward the at least one data item to the source system; and

sending a confirmation message to the central server that the at least one data item has been forwarded to the source system.

16. A network comprising:

a group of interconnected computer system nodes, each node configured to;

in response to a request from a source system to store at least one data item, receive at least one data item and continuously forward the at least one data item among the computer system nodes without storing the forwarded at least one data item on any fixed storage medium, the forwarded at least one data item being constantly routed from node to node within the group of interconnected computer system nodes;

in response to a request from the source system to retrieve the at least one data item, retrieve the at least one data item being continuously forwarded among the computer system nodes, each node employing an encryption scheme; and

each node further configured to detect the presence of the at least one data item, and forward the at least one data item to another node in the group of interconnected computer systems nodes according to a node'"'"'s availability.

17. The network of claim 16 wherein the group of nodes comprises a central server that matches the data item retrieval request using a hash mark representing the data item entering a node, sends a message to a node that is predicted to have the data item, the message instructing the node to forward the data item to the source system, and receives a confirmation message that the data item has been forwarded to the source system.

18. The network of claim 16 wherein the encryption scheme is controlled and periodically changed by a central server.

19. The method of claim 18 wherein the central server changes the encryption scheme in response to a type of the data item or an owner of the data item.

20. The method of claim 16 wherein the encryption scheme is a simple conversion encryption scheme, network tools encryption scheme, non-key En/EeCryption scheme, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) Encoding scheme, Hash Algorithm scheme, key En/DeCryption scheme, or time Conversion encryption scheme.