Patent ID: 7996680

Claim:
A method of secure data log management in a computer system, comprising: receiving, in a secure computing environment in the computer system, a portion of a data log from a source outside the secure computing environment; in response to detecting that a size of the received portion of the data log is less than a size threshold, continue to receive further data of the data log into the portion; in response to detecting that the size of the received portion of the data log exceeds the size threshold, the computer system: assigning a timestamp to the received portion of the data log; assigning an identifier to the received portion of the data log; creating a particular digital signature load block comprising the received portion of the data log, the timestamp, and the identifier; and storing the particular digital signature load block in a memory module; receiving a query for data associated with plural digital signature blocks; retrieving the plural digital signature blocks from the memory module; and verifying content in the digital signature blocks, wherein the verifying comprises determining that the plural digital signature blocks from the memory module are in a correct sequence order.