Patents by Inventor Cecelia Carranza Lewis

Cecelia Carranza Lewis has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Configuring host settings to specify an encryption setting and a key label referencing a key encryption key to use to encrypt an encryption key provided to a storage drive to use to encrypt data from the host
    Patent number: 8645715
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for configuring host settings to specify encryption and a key label referencing a key encrypting key to use to encrypt an encryption key provided to a storage drive to use to encrypt data from the host. User settings are received to configure a data class having data attributes with encryption settings. The data class is stored with the received user encryption settings. A job is received indicating a data set to store to a removable storage medium. A data class is determined having data class attributes matching data attributes of the data set indicated in the job. A determination is made from the determined data class whether to encrypt the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Erika Marianna Dawson, Richard Henry Guski, Michael James Kelly, Cecelia Carranza Lewis, Jon Arthur Lynds, Wayne Erwin Rhoten, Peter Grimm Sutton