US Patent Issued to EMC IP Holding on Sept. 29 for "Using INQ to optimize end-to-end encryption management with backup appliances" (American, Israeli, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,863, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Using INQ to optimize end-to-end encryption management with backup appliances" was invented by Jehuda Shemer (Kfar Saba, Israel), Arieh Don (Newton, Mass.) and Krishna Deepak Nuthakki (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes receiving, by a backup appliance, a request concerning a dataset, performing, by the backup appliance, an inquiry to determine if end-to-end encryption is enabled for a volume of a target storage array, receiving, by the backup appliance, confirmation from the storage array that end-to-end enc...