Citrix Assigned Patent

Citrix Systems, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL, has been assigned a patent (9,509,501) developed by Bursell, Michael, Halstead, Great Britain, for a “storage encryption.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Storage associated with a virtual machine or other type of device may be migrated between locations, (e.g., physical devices, network locations, etc.). To maintain the security of the storage, a system may manage the encryption of the storage area such that a storage area is encrypted with a first encryption key that may be maintained through the migration. A header of the storage area, on the other hand, may be encrypted using a second encryption key and the first encryption key may be stored therein. Upon transfer, the header may be re-encrypted to affect the transfer of security.“

The patent application was filed on April 6, 2015 (14/679,363).