Patents by Inventor Ronald Andrew Hoskinson

Ronald Andrew Hoskinson 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: 11888997
    Abstract: A computing resource service provider provides a certificate management service that allows customers of the computing resource service provider to create, distribute, manage, and revoke digital certificates issued by public and/or private certificate authorities. In an embodiment, customers may use the certificate management service to generate private certificate authority which can issue signed certificates to network entities within the customer enterprise. In an embodiment, the private certificate authority is hosted by the computing resource service provider, and the certificate management service automates the renewal and management of active certificates. In an embodiment, the certificate management service allows customer applications to create, renew, and revoke certificates issued by both private and public certificate authorities via an application programming interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Zachary Bowen, Todd Lawrence Cignetti, Preston Anthony Elder, III, Brandonn Gorman, Ronald Andrew Hoskinson, Jonathan Kozolchyk, Kenneth Lawler, Marcel Andrew Levy, Kyle Benjamin Schultheiss, Sandeep Shantharaj, Param Sharma, Jose Maria Silveira Neto
  • Patent number: 11563590
    Abstract: A computing resource service provider provides a certificate management service that allows customers of the computing resource service provider to create, distribute, manage, and revoke digital certificates issued by public and/or private certificate authorities. In an embodiment, when a new certificate is generated, a certificate template is used to apply various settings and policies for the new certificate. In various examples, templates may be used to establish default values, enforce required and optional values, place restrictions on one or more data fields, and enforce signature requirements. In some embodiments, the template establishes rules for rejecting certificate requests that don't conform to the template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Zachary Bowen, Todd Lawrence Cignetti, Preston Anthony Elder, III, Brandonn Gorman, Ronald Andrew Hoskinson, Jonathan Kozolchyk, Kenneth Lawler, Marcel Andrew Levy, Kyle Benjamin Schultheiss, Sandeep Shantharaj, Param Sharma, Jose Maria Silveira Neto
  • Patent number: 11323274
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a computing resource service provider provides a certificate management service that allows customers of the computing resource service provider to create, distribute, manage, and revoke digital certificates issued by private certificate authorities. In an embodiment, a private certificate authority hosted by the computing resource service provider is able to issue signed certificates to network entities within the customer enterprise. In an embodiment, the certificate management service provides a network-accessible application programming interface to the private certificate authority that allows applications to create and deploy private certificates programmatically. In an embodiment, the system provides the flexibility to create private certificates for applications that require custom certificate lifetimes or resource names.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Zachary Bowen, Todd Lawrence Cignetti, Preston Anthony Elder, III, Brandonn Gorman, Ronald Andrew Hoskinson, Jonathan Kozolchyk, Kenneth Lawler, Marcel Andrew Levy, Kyle Benjamin Schultheiss, Sandeep Shantharaj, Param Sharma, Jose Maria Silveira Neto
  • Patent number: 10652030
    Abstract: A method and system for generating multiple profiles corresponding to different digital certificates. The profile includes intrinsic attributes and derived attributes associated with a digital certificate. The system enables a customer system to filter digital certificates based on a suitability of the various digital certificates for use with a given application to be executed by or on behalf of the customer system. The suitability may be determined based on a comparison of certificate requirements associated with a customer system's request and one or more of the intrinsic attributes and derived attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel Andrew Levy, Peter Zachary Bowen, Todd Lawrence Cignetti, Brandonn Gorman, Ronald Andrew Hoskinson, Brenda Lee Leary, Timothy Sterling Loverin, James Spencer, Nicholas Wexler
  • Patent number: 10469442
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to enable adaptive handling of domain resolution requests originating from a virtual private cloud (VPC) networking environment. An administrator of the VPC can provide a set of rules specific to the VPC that designates how requests for a domain name should be handled. The rules may specify, for example, that a request for a given domain name should be routed to a particular domain name server, which may include a private domain name server, should be dropped, or should be routed according to a default behavior (e.g., a public domain name system). Resolution requests originating in the VPC can be associated with a VPC identifier. When an adaptive resolution system receives the request, it can retrieve rules associated with the VPC identifier, and apply the rules to determine further routing for the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrey Mizik, Lee-Ming Zen, Gavin Derek McCullagh, Yohanes Santoso, Vadim Meleshuk, Yu Gu, Minli Lai, Ivan Mistrianu, Rebecca Claire Weiss, Yi Cheng Chen, Ronald Andrew Hoskinson
  • Publication number: 20180351904
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to enable adaptive handling of domain resolution requests originating from a virtual private cloud (VPC) networking environment. An administrator of the VPC can provide a set of rules specific to the VPC that designates how requests for a domain name should be handled. The rules may specify, for example, that a request for a given domain name should be routed to a particular domain name server, which may include a private domain name server, should be dropped, or should be routed according to a default behavior (e.g., a public domain name system). Resolution requests originating in the VPC can be associated with a VPC identifier. When an adaptive resolution system receives the request, it can retrieve rules associated with the VPC identifier, and apply the rules to determine further routing for the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Andrey Mizik, Lee-Ming Zen, Gavin Derek McCullagh, Yohanes Santoso, Vadim Meleshuk, Yu Gu, Minli Lai, Ivan Mistrianu, Rebecca Claire Weiss, Yi Cheng Chen, Ronald Andrew Hoskinson
  • Patent number: 10140282
    Abstract: A plurality of input string n-grams may be generated by accessing an input string and generating a Universal character set transformation format (UTF) encoded input string from the input string. The UTF encoded input string may be parsed via an n-gram parser to generate a plurality of input string n-grams, where a length of each of the input string n-grams is larger than a lower bound and smaller than an upper bound. The generated plurality of input string n-grams may be provided to determine matches between the input string and a domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: VERISIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Pallavi Aras, Ronald Andrew Hoskinson
  • Patent number: 10033691
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to enable adaptive handling of domain resolution requests originating from a virtual private cloud (VPC) networking environment. An administrator of the VPC can provide a set of rules specific to the VPC that designates how requests for a domain name should be handled. The rules may specify, for example, that a request for a given domain name should be routed to a particular domain name server, which may include a private domain name server, should be dropped, or should be routed according to a default behavior (e.g., a public domain name system). Resolution requests originating in the VPC can be associated with a VPC identifier. When an adaptive resolution system receives the request, it can retrieve rules associated with the VPC identifier, and apply the rules to determine further routing for the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrey Mizik, Lee-Ming Zen, Gavin Derek McCullagh, Yohanes Santoso, Vadim Meleshuk, Yu Gu, Minli Lai, Ivan Mistrianu, Rebecca Claire Weiss, Yi Cheng Chen, Ronald Andrew Hoskinson
  • Patent number: 9785629
    Abstract: Methods and systems for automated language detection for domain names are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method for detecting a language of an Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) comprises receiving, by an I/O interface, a string of characters for the IDN; receiving training data, including a plurality of multi-gram analyses for a set of languages; analyzing, by a processor, the string of characters based on the training data, wherein the analyzing includes extracting a set of multi-grams from the string of characters and comparing the extracted set of multi-grams with the training data; detecting the language of the IDN based on results of the analyzing. In some embodiments, the method further comprises comparing the detected language of the IDN with a user selected language and using the IDN to generate a domain name, if the comparing indicates that the detected language of the IDN is consistent with the user selected language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: VERISIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Ronald Andrew Hoskinson, Lambert Arians, Marc Anderson, Mahendra Jain
  • Publication number: 20160232154
    Abstract: Methods and systems for automated language detection for domain names are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method for detecting a language of an Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) comprises receiving, by an I/O interface, a string of characters for the IDN; receiving training data, including a plurality of multi-gram analyses for a set of languages; analyzing, by a processor, the string of characters based on the training data, wherein the analyzing includes extracting a set of multi-grams from the string of characters and comparing the extracted set of multi-grams with the training data; detecting the language of the IDN based on results of the analyzing. In some embodiments, the method further comprises comparing the detected language of the IDN with a user selected language and using the IDN to generate a domain name, if the comparing indicates that the detected language of the IDN is consistent with the user selected language.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Ronald Andrew Hoskinson, Lambert Arians, Marc Anderson, Mahendra Jain
  • Patent number: 9218335
    Abstract: Methods and systems for automated language detection for domain names are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method for detecting a language of an Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) comprises receiving, by an I/O interface, a string of characters for the IDN; receiving training data, including a plurality of multi-gram analysis for a set of languages; analyzing, by a processor, the string of characters based on the training data, wherein the analyzing includes extracting a set of multi-grams from the string of characters and comparing the extracted set of multi-grams with the training data; detecting the language of the IDN based on results of the analyzing. In some embodiments, the method further comprises comparing the detected language of the IDN with a user selected language and using the IDN to generate a domain name, if the comparing indicates that the detected language of the IDN is consistent with the user selected language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: VERISIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Ronald Andrew Hoskinson, Lambert Arians, Marc Anderson, Mahendra Jain
  • Publication number: 20150278188
    Abstract: A plurality of input string n-grams may be generated by accessing an input string and generating a Universal character set transformation format (UTF) encoded input string from the input string. The UTF encoded input string may be parsed via an n-gram parser to generate a plurality of input string n-grams, where a length of each of the input string n-grams is larger than a lower bound and smaller than an upper bound. The generated plurality of input string n-grams may be provided to determine matches between the input string and a domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: VERISIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Pallavi Aras, Ronald Andrew Hoskinson
  • Publication number: 20140100845
    Abstract: Methods and systems for automated language detection for domain names are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method for detecting a language of an Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) comprises receiving, by an I/O interface, a string of characters for the IDN; receiving training data, including a plurality of multi-gram analyses for a set of languages; analyzing, by a processor, the string of characters based on the training data, wherein the analyzing includes extracting a set of multi-grams from the string of characters and comparing the extracted set of multi-grams with the training data; detecting the language of the IDN based on results of the analyzing. In some embodiments, the method further comprises comparing the detected language of the IDN with a user selected language and using the IDN to generate a domain name, if the comparing indicates that the detected language of the IDN is consistent with the user selected language.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Verisign, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Andrew Hoskinson, Lambert Arians, Marc Anderson, Mahendra Jain