Patents by Inventor Andrew Wilson Homer

Andrew Wilson Homer 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).

  • System and method for securing tenant data on a local appliance prior to delivery to a SaaS data center hosted application service
    Patent number: 10007767
    Abstract: An extensible servicing hosting platform is provided that supports the design, build and concurrent deployment of multiple web accessible services on a services hosting platform. The services hosting platform comprises a services hosting framework capable of hosting multiple service applications, each of which may be shared by multiple tenants that each customize their use of a particular application service by extending the application service to exploit run time platform services within a service execution pipeline. The services hosting framework may easily be leveraged by applications to decrease the time associated with developing, deploying and maintaining high quality services in a cost effective manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Zahid N. Ahmed, Harsha Ramalingam, Andrew Wilson Homer
  • Tenant life cycle management for a software as a service platform
    Patent number: 8291490
    Abstract: Managing user access to application-specific capabilities of a system includes maintaining data correlating application-specific capabilities for each of the applications of the system, where the application-specific capabilities of different applications are independent of each other. Managing user access also includes maintaining data correlating user identifiers with user roles, maintaining data correlating user roles with application-specific capabilities, and managing the data using a security module that accesses the data correlating application-specific capabilities, data correlating user identifiers, and the data correlating user roles. The system may have a plurality of tenants and wherein each of the tenants subscribes to one or more of the applications. Each of the users may correspond to a particular one of the tenants. Each tenant may subscribe to a particular set of applications/features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Zahid N. Ahmed, Jonathan M. Jensen, Juniad Saiyed, Patrick E. Bozeman, David Victor Sahagian, Richard Perkett, Andrew Wilson Homer
  • System and method for securing tenant data on a local appliance prior to delivery to a SaaS data center hosted application service
    Publication number: 20100198730
    Abstract: An extensible servicing hosting platform is provided that supports the design, build and concurrent deployment of multiple web accessible services on a services hosting platform. The services hosting platform comprises a services hosting framework capable of hosting multiple service applications, each of which may be shared by multiple tenants that each customize their use of a particular application service by extending the application service to exploit run time platform services within a service execution pipeline. The services hosting framework may easily be leveraged by applications to decrease the time associated with developing, deploying and maintaining high quality services in a cost effective manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Zahid N. Ahmed, Harsha Ramalingam, Andrew Wilson Homer