Patents by Inventor Maxine R. Erlund

Maxine R. Erlund 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: 10187275
    Abstract: A solution is provided for associating network traffic traversing a networked environment according to a selected category item, such as a user name or other network entity identity-related information. The solution includes a collector and a monitor. The collector extracts a user name and a network address from an event log maintained on the networked environment. The monitor receives the network traffic and identifies at least one packet having a network address that matches the extracted network address. After at least one of the packets is identified, the collector associates the identified packet(s) with the extracted user name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Pramod John, Yingxian Wang, Ramachandran V. Marti, Maxine R. Erlund
  • Publication number: 20170141975
    Abstract: A solution is provided for associating network traffic traversing a networked environment according to a selected category item, such as a user name or other network entity identity-related information. The solution includes a collector and a monitor. The collector extracts a user name and a network address from an event log maintained on the networked environment. The monitor receives the network traffic and identifies at least one packet having a network address that matches the extracted network address. After at least one of the packets is identified, the collector associates the identified packet(s) with the extracted user name.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Pramod John, Yingxian Wang, Ramachandran V. Marti, Maxine R. Erlund
  • Patent number: 9584522
    Abstract: A solution is provided for associating network traffic traversing a networked environment according to a selected category item, such as a user name or other network entity identity-related information. The solution includes a collector and a monitor. The collector extracts a user name and a network address from an event log maintained on the networked environment. The monitor receives the network traffic and identifies at least one packet having a network address that matches the extracted network address. After at least one of the packets is identified, the collector associates the identified packet(s) with the extracted user name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Pramod John, Yingxian Wang, Ramachandran V. Marti, Maxine R. Erlund
  • Patent number: 8312522
    Abstract: A solution is provided for associating network traffic traversing on a networked environment according to a selected category item, such as a user name or other network entity identity-related information, by using a monitor device. The solution includes: obtaining user information from the directory service by obtaining at least one set of user object attributes from the directory service; identifying at least one authentication exchange packet from packets traversing on the networked environment; extracting a user ID and a network address from the authentication exchange packet; filtering or selecting packets traversing on the network environment that each have a network address equivalent to the extracted network address; and associating packets that were selected with user information having a name attribute equivalent to the extracted user ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Packetmotion, Inc.
    Inventors: Pramod John, Tsehua A. Chen, Mitchell T. Christensen, Maxine R. Erlund
  • Patent number: 8024779
    Abstract: A solution for transparently verifying the authentication of a real user includes a monitor that receives network packets and a collector. The monitor identifies an authentication exchange packet from network traffic, extracts information from the packet and sends it to the collector, which obtains objects from a directory service and determines if the information includes a user name equivalent to a name attribute in an object. If so, authentication is deemed verified. For additional verification, the monitor extracts from the packet a destination address if it is an response packet, or a source address if it is a request packet. Monitor sends the extracted address to the collector, which uses the extracted address to obtain a hostname and determines whether a user account associated with the name attribute is active on a computing device having the hostname. If so, the authentication of the real user is deemed further verified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: PacketMotion, Inc.
    Inventors: Pramod John, Ramachandran V. Marti, Yingxian Wang, Maxine R. Erlund
  • Patent number: 7941827
    Abstract: A solution is provided for associating network traffic traversing on a networked environment according to a selected category item, such as a user name or other network entity identity-related information, by using a monitor device. The solution includes: obtaining user information from the directory service by obtaining at least one set of user object attributes from the directory service; identifying at least one authentication exchange packet from packets traversing on the networked environment; extracting a user ID and a network address from the authentication exchange packet; filtering or selecting packets traversing on the network environment that each have a network address equivalent to the extracted network address; and associating packets that were selected with user information having a name attribute equivalent to the extracted user ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Packetmotion, Inc.
    Inventors: Pramod John, Tsehua A. Chen, Mitchell T. Christensen, Maxine R. Erlund
  • Publication number: 20100281527
    Abstract: A solution is provided for associating network traffic traversing on a networked environment according to a selected category item, such as a user name or other network entity identity-related information, by using a monitor device. The solution includes: obtaining user information from the directory service by obtaining at least one set of user object attributes from the directory service; identifying at least one authentication exchange packet from packets traversing on the networked environment; extracting a user ID and a network address from the authentication exchange packet; filtering or selecting packets traversing on the network environment that each have a network address equivalent to the extracted network address; and associating packets that were selected with user information having a name attribute equivalent to the extracted user ID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventors: Pramod John, Tsehua A. Chen, Mitchell T. Christensen, Maxine R. Erlund