Patents by Inventor David N. Robinson

David N. Robinson 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).

  • Methods and systems for assigning access control levels in providing access to resources via virtual machines
    Patent number: 7954150
    Abstract: A system for granting access to resources includes a client machine, a collection agent, a policy engine, and a broker server. The client machine requests access to a resource. The collection agent gathers information about the client machine. The policy engine receives the gathered information and assigns one of a plurality of levels of access responsive to application of a policy to the received information. The broker server establishes, responsive to the assigned level of access, a connection between the client machine and a computing environment providing the requested resource, the computing environment provided by a virtual machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Jason Croft, Anthony Edward Low, Richard James Mazzaferri, Bradley J. Pedersen, David N. Robinson