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Patent Inventor Names
Jonathan Rumsey0
Michael Horan0
Richard Michael Wyn Harran0
Date of Patent
January 19, 2010
0Patent Application Number
105985090
Date Filed
March 1, 2005
0Patent Citations Received
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Patent abstract
There is disclosed a method, apparatus, computer program and computer program product for facilitating secure data communications. The secure data communications is carried out using a secret key for encrypting data flowing between first and second entities over a communications link. First it is determined that the communications link has been idle. Once it is determined that there is now data to flow over the previously idle communications link, the generation of a new secret key is initiated. This new secret key is then used for encrypting data sent between the first and the second entities over the communications link.
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