Patents

Issued Patents

2004

Validation of network communication tunnels. Filed 2000. Issued as Patent 6829709 in the US 12/2004. Co-Inventors: Arup Acharya, Mandis Beigi, Raymond B. Jennings III, Dinesh C. Verma.

2006

Method and apparatus for serving content from a semi-trusted server. Filed 2001, Issued as Patent 6986047 in the US 01/2006. Co-Inventors: James R. Giles, Dinesh Verma

2008

Method and apparatus for migrating a virtual TPM instance and preserving uniqueness and completeness of the instance. Filed 2006, Issued as Patent 7444670 in the US 10/2008. Co-Inventors: Stefan Berger, Kenneth A. Goldman

2009

Method and apparatus for pervasive authentication domains. Filed 2003, Issued as Patent 7487537 in the US 02/2009. Co-Inventor: James R. Giles

Published and Filed Patents

2009

Method and apparatus for scalable integrity attestation in virtualized environments. Filed 2009. Co-Inventors: Stefan Berger, Ramón Cáceres, Kenneth Goldman, Deepa Srinivasan

2008

Method for discovering a security policy. Filed 2008. Co-Inventors: John L. Griffin, Dimitrios Pendarakis, Ronald Perez, Enriquillo Valdez

2007

Architecture for supporting attestation of a virtual machine in a single step. Filed 2007. Published 2008. 20080178176. Co-Inventors: Stefan Berger, Kenneth Goldman, Ronald Perez

2006

Method, system, and program product for remotely attesting to a state of a computer system. Filed 2006. Published 2008. 20080046752. Co-Inventors: Stefan Berger, Kenneth A. Goldman, Ronald Perez, Enriquillo Valdez

Method and apparatus to protect policy state information during the life-time of virtual machines. Filed 2006. Published 2007. 20070239979. Co-Inventors: Enriquillo Valdez, Stefan Berger, Ronald Perez, Trent R. Jaeger

2005

Method, system and program product for remotely verifying integrity of a system. Filed 2005. Published 2007. 20070107046. Co-Inventors: Trent R. Jaeger, Leendert P. van Doorn

Dynamic creation and hierarchical organization of Trusted Platform Modules. Filed 2005. Published 2007 20070079120. Co-Inventors: Steven A. Bade, Kenneth A. Goldman, Leendert P. van Doorn, Stefan Berger, Ronald Perez

Method and apparatus for delegating responses to conditions in computing systems. Filed 2005, Published 2006 20060282525. Co-Inventors: James R. Giles

2004

Method and system for measuring status and state of remotely executing programs. Filed 2004, Published 2005 20050132031. Co-Inventors: Leendert van Doorn, Xiaolan Zhang

2002

Method and apparatus for single sign-on authentication. Filed 2002, Published 2003 20030226036 . Co-Inventors: John A. Bivens, Suresh N. Chari, James R. Giles, Dinesh C. Verma