Distributed encryption key allocation - Zoom Communications

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Published April 7th, 2026

Detected April 8th, 2026

Summary

USPTO granted patent US12598060B2 to Zoom Communications, Inc. for a distributed encryption key allocation system enabling customers of a communications platform to control their own encryption keys for encrypting and decrypting data including conference recordings, voicemails, emails, and calendar tokens. The patent covers a key broker server mapping encryption requests to customer key management servers based on user identifiers.

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USPTO issued Patent No. US12598060B2 to Zoom Communications, Inc. on April 7, 2026, covering a system for distributed encryption key allocation where customers control their own encryption keys for communication services. The key broker server maps encryption/decryption requests from platform servers to customer key management servers using user identifiers.\n\nTechnology companies offering communication platforms may benefit from reviewing this patent landscape for encryption key management innovations. The patent could influence competitive positioning in the secure communications and enterprise data protection space, though patent grants do not impose immediate compliance obligations on other market participants.

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Distributed encryption key allocation

Grant US12598060B2 Kind: B2 Apr 07, 2026

Assignee

Zoom Communications, Inc.

Inventors

John Kennedy, Prasanna Kumar Malaiyandi, Karthik Raman, Jan Zila

Abstract

Customers of a software platform, such as a unified communications as a service platform, are enabled to control their own encryption keys used to encrypt and decrypt data from various communication services in the software platform. A key broker server is employed to map encryption and decryption requests from servers in the platform to key management servers of customers based on user identifiers. Examples of data encrypted may includes conference recordings, webinar recordings, phone call recordings, voicemails, emails, and calendar tokens.