Patents by Inventor Alain Sigaud

Alain Sigaud has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6657956
    Abstract: A process for protecting accesses to at least one server (30) is characterized in that it makes it possible to protect accesses originating from user stations (2) whose destination is at least one application server through a network (42) using a multisession, multiport telecommunication protocol, said process consisting of a step for the systematic establishment of a parallel security session between the user station (2) and a security processor (1) interposed between the user station to be protected during application sessions and the server or servers (30) to be protected and a step for the cyclic initiation of security sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Bull CP8
    Inventor: Alain Sigaud
  • Patent number: 5434999
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system including a terminal connected by a transmission line to a central processing unit, the terminal including a memory divided into a program memory and a working memory of the RAM type, the program memory in turn including a volatile memory, a safeguarded memory of the EEPROM type or RAM type with batteries, and a resident memory of the ROM or PROM type, characterized in that each of the memories comprising the program memory is divided into a noncertified zone, the terminal including an interpreter program for interpreting between a program written in a high-level universal compact language and the language specific to the microprocessor of the terminal, this interpreter program being capable of access to each of the memory divisions, and a remote loading monitoring program including at least one instruction CHSB, the command word of which is stored in one of the registers and expresses the remote loading possibilities of the various zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Assignee: Bull CP8
    Inventors: Christian Goire, Alain Sigaud, Eric Moyal