Patents by Inventor Tarik Essawi

Tarik Essawi 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: 9794221
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium, is described that enables a registry recovery service to retrieve zone files from a target registry, archive the zone files, publish the zone files to a managed DNS server, reconcile ownership of the zone files, and publish the zone files to a provisioning DNS server. The registry recovery service may also implement a WHOIS server for the zone and ownership information and may also implement zone specific features particular to the target registry's TLD. The registry recovery service may also enable DNSSEC extensions on the recovered registry DNS services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: VERISIGN, INC.
    Inventors: James Gould, Tarik Essawi, Kenneth R. Craddock, Jr., Velmurugan Periasamy, Ramesh Balasubramanian
  • Publication number: 20160277356
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium, is described that enables a registry recovery service to retrieve zone files from a target registry, archive the zone files, publish the zone files to a managed DNS server, reconcile ownership of the zone files, and publish the zone files to a provisioning DNS server. The registry recovery service may also implement a WHOIS server for the zone and ownership information and may also implement zone specific features particular to the target registry's TLD. The registry recovery service may also enable DNSSEC extensions on the recovered registry DNS services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: James Gould, Tarik Essawi, Kenneth R. Craddock, JR., Velmurugan Periasamy, Ramesh Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 9369427
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium, is described that enables a registry recovery service to retrieve zone files from a target registry, archive the zone files, publish the zone files to a managed DNS server, reconcile ownership of the zone files, and publish the zone files to a provisioning DNS server. The registry recovery service may also implement a WHOIS server for the zone and ownership information and may also implement zone specific features particular to the target registry's TLD. The registry recovery service may also enable DNSSEC extensions on the recovered registry DNS services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: VERISIGN, INC.
    Inventors: James Gould, Tarik Essawi, Kenneth Craddock, Jr., Velmurugan Periasamy, Ramesh Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 8904519
    Abstract: A system and method for establishing a chain of trust from a registrant to a registry. A registrant request to a registrar to change a domain name record includes at least one registrant factor, such as a one time password. The registrar can formulate an extended EPP command that includes the factor to effectuate the change and send it to a registry. The registry can verify the at least one factor using at least one validation server. If the factor is successfully verified, the EPP can be processed by the registry. If the factor is not verified, the EPP command may not be processed and an error message may be generated and sent to the registrar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Verisign, Inc.
    Inventors: Tarik Essawi, James Gould, Pat Kane, Dan Schonfeld, Joe Waldron, Scott Hollenbeck
  • Publication number: 20140143381
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium, is described that enables a registry recovery service to retrieve zone files from a target registry, archive the zone files, publish the zone files to a managed DNS server, reconcile ownership of the zone files, and publish the zone files to a provisioning DNS server. The registry recovery service may also implement a WHOIS server for the zone and ownership information and may also implement zone specific features particular to the target registry's TLD. The registry recovery service may also enable DNSSEC extensions on the recovered registry DNS services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: VERISIGN, INC.
    Inventors: James Gould, Tarik Essawi, Kenneth Craddock, JR., Velmurugan Periasamy, Ramesh Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 8719232
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for data integrity checking in a computing system. In one exemplary embodiment, the method includes receiving, from each of a plurality of computing devices of the computing system, application transaction logs, wherein the application transaction logs are related to a plurality of applications. The method also includes comparing, by the central computing device, the received application transaction logs to a transactions recorded in a database to identify missing transactions. In addition, the method includes performing one or more actions in response to the identified missing transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Verisign, Inc.
    Inventors: Tarik Essawi, Deepak Deshpande, Niraj Tank
  • Patent number: 8656209
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium, is described that enables a registry recovery service to retrieve zone files from a target registry, archive the zone files, publish the zone files to a managed DNS server, reconcile ownership of the zone files, and publish the zone files to a provisioning DNS server. The registry recovery service may also implement a WHOIS server for the zone and ownership information and may also implement zone specific features particular to the target registry's TLD. The registry recovery service may also enable DNSSEC extensions on the recovered registry DNS services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Verisign, Inc.
    Inventors: James Gould, Tarik Essawi, Kenneth Craddock, Jr., Velmurugan Periasamy, Ramesh Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 8645700
    Abstract: Systems and methods of performing incremental DNSSEC signing at a registry are described in which digital signature operations may be performed as part of a single transaction including DNS add, update, and/or delete operations and the like. Exemplary methods may include receiving a domain command from a requester, the domain command including an identifier of a domain. The received domain command may be executed with respect to data stored by the registry for the domain. As part of an individual transaction including the execution of the domain command, the registry may also sign DNSSEC records for the domain using a private key of an authoritative server. After the DNSSEC records have been signed, the registry may incrementally publish the signed DNSSEC records to a separate server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Verisign, Inc.
    Inventors: David Smith, James Gould, Tarik Essawi, David Blacka, Srikanth Veeramachaneni
  • Publication number: 20130006949
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for data integrity checking in a computing system. In one exemplary embodiment, the method includes receiving, from each of a plurality of computing devices of the computing system, application transaction logs, wherein the application transaction logs are related to a plurality of applications. The method also includes comparing, by the central computing device, the received application transaction logs to a transactions recorded in a database to identify missing transactions. In addition, the method includes performing one or more actions in response to the identified missing transactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventors: Tarik Essawi, Deepak Deshpande, Niraj Tank
  • Publication number: 20120304004
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium, is described that enables a registry recovery service to retrieve zone files from a target registry, archive the zone files, publish the zone files to a managed DNS server, reconcile ownership of the zone files, and publish the zone files to a provisioning DNS server. The registry recovery service may also implement a WHOIS server for the zone and ownership information and may also implement zone specific features particular to the target registry's TLD. The registry recovery service may also enable DNSSEC extensions on the recovered registry DNS services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Inventors: James Gould, Tarik Essawi, Kenneth Craddock, JR., Velmurugan Periasamy, Ramesh Balasubramanian
  • Publication number: 20120278626
    Abstract: Systems and methods of performing incremental DNSSEC signing at a registry are described in which digital signature operations may be performed as part of a single transaction including DNS add, update, and/or delete operations and the like. Exemplary methods may include receiving a domain command from a requester, the domain command including an identifier of a domain. The received domain command may be executed with respect to data stored by the registry for the domain. As part of an individual transaction including the execution of the domain command, the registry may also sign DNSSEC records for the domain using a private key of an authoritative server. After the DNSSEC records have been signed, the registry may incrementally publish the signed DNSSEC records to a separate server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: VeriSign, Inc.
    Inventors: David Smith, James Gould, Tarik Essawi, David Blacka, Srikanth Veeramachani
  • Publication number: 20100325723
    Abstract: A system and method for establishing a chain of trust from a registrant to a registry. A registrant request to a registrar to change a domain name record includes at least one registrant factor, such as a one time password. The registrar can formulate an extended EPP command that includes the factor to effectuate the change and send it to a registry. The registry can verify the at least one factor using at least one validation server. If the factor is successfully verified, the EPP can be processed by the registry. If the factor is not verified, the EPP command may not be processed and an error message may be generated and sent to the registrar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: VeriSign, Inc.
    Inventors: Tarik Essawi, James Gould, Pat Kane, Dan Schonfeld, Joe Waldron