Patents by Inventor Richard A. Mullock

Richard A. Mullock 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 central management of connections in a virtual private network
    Patent number: 6636898
    Abstract: A single point of control is provided for all IPSec tunnels and also for VPN connections at a node within a virtual private network. The control of the connections include the ability to start and stop manual and dynamic VPN connections, to delete connections that might have had errors associated with them, to query VPN connection status information on these connections, to manage such things as connection lifetimes, and the refresh of keying material, that is the re-negotiation of dynamic Security Associations (SAs), and to create VPN connections when this system is acting in a responder role, that is the opposite endpoint of an initiated connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David S. Ludovici, Mark J. Melville, Richard A. Mullock, Frank V. Paxhia