Patents by Inventor Bradford T. Spiers

Bradford T. Spiers 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).

  • Provisioning of a virtual machine by using a secured zone of a cloud environment
    Patent number: 9183031
    Abstract: Apparatuses, computer readable media, methods, and systems are described for providing a list of cloud orchestrator clients, each of the clients being associated with one of a plurality of cloud provider data centers, processing an instruction to at least one of create a virtual machine and change a state of the virtual machine, select a particular one of the cloud orchestrator clients associated with a particular one of the cloud provider data centers where the virtual machine is to be created or where the virtual machine currently resides, generating a provisioning request instructing the particular cloud orchestrator client to perform at least one of creating the virtual machine and changing the state of the virtual machine, and communicating the request to the particular cloud orchestrator client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Bradford T. Spiers, Miroslav Halas
  • Secure network cloud architecture
    Patent number: 8984610
    Abstract: Apparatuses, computer readable media, methods, and systems are described for requesting creation of virtual machine (VM) in a cloud environment comprising a virtual private cloud. Through various communications between a cloud DMZ, cloud provider, and/or company's network, a VM instance may be securely created, initialized, booted, unlocked, and/or monitored through a series of interactions building, in some examples, upon a root of trust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Bradford T. Spiers, Miroslav Halas, Richard A. Schimmel, Donald P. Provencher
  • Secure network cloud architecture
    Patent number: 8799997
    Abstract: Apparatuses, computer readable media, methods, and systems are described for requesting creation of virtual machine (VM) in a cloud environment comprising a virtual private cloud. Through various communications between a cloud DMZ, cloud provider, and/or company's network, a VM instance may be securely created, initialized, booted, unlocked, and/or monitored through a series of interactions building, in some examples, upon a root of trust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Bradford T. Spiers, Miroslav Halas, Richard A. Schimmel, Donald P. Provencher
  • Provisioning of a Virtual Machine by Using a Secured Zone of a Cloud Environment
    Publication number: 20130339949
    Abstract: Apparatuses, computer readable media, methods, and systems are described for providing a list of cloud orchestrator clients, each of the clients being associated with one of a plurality of cloud provider data centers, processing an instruction to at least one of create a virtual machine and change a state of the virtual machine, select a particular one of the cloud orchestrator clients associated with a particular one of the cloud provider data centers where the virtual machine is to be created or where the virtual machine currently resides, generating a provisioning request instructing the particular cloud orchestrator client to perform at least one of creating the virtual machine and changing the state of the virtual machine, and communicating the request to the particular cloud orchestrator client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bradford T. Spiers, Miroslav Halas
  • Secure Network Cloud Architecture
    Publication number: 20120265976
    Abstract: Apparatuses, computer readable media, methods, and systems are described for requesting creation of virtual machine (VM) in a cloud environment comprising a virtual private cloud. Through various communications between a cloud DMZ, cloud provider, and/or company's network, a VM instance may be securely created, initialized, booted, unlocked, and/or monitored through a series of interactions building, in some examples, upon a root of trust.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bradford T. Spiers, Miroslav Halas, Richard A. Schimmel, Donald P. Provencher
  • Secure Network Cloud Architecture
    Publication number: 20120266231
    Abstract: Apparatuses, computer readable media, methods, and systems are described for requesting creation of virtual machine (VM) in a cloud environment comprising a virtual private cloud. Through various communications between a cloud DMZ, cloud provider, and/or company's network, a VM instance may be securely created, initialized, booted, unlocked, and/or monitored through a series of interactions building, in some examples, upon a root of trust.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bradford T. Spiers, Miroslav Halas, Richard A. Schimmel, Donald P. Provencher