Patent ID: 8644513
Filing Date: 2014-02-04
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. In a first database management system that manages a first database, a method comprising: responsive to receiving externally encrypted and encoded data, storing the externally encrypted and encoded data in a database object of the first database; wherein the received data that is externally encrypted and encoded is: wherein the second database management system is different from the first database management system; wherein the second database is different from the first database; responsive to receiving decryption and decoding information, storing the decryption and decoding information in the first database in association with the database object; responsive to receiving a database query requesting access to the data that is externally encrypted and encoded, decrypting and decoding the externally encrypted and encoded data using the decryption and decoding information, and returning the decrypted and decoded data as an answer to the query; wherein decrypting and decoding the externally encrypted and encoded data comprises: