Patents by Inventor Alan S. Jeffrey

Alan S. Jeffrey 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).

  • Extensible protocol validation
    Patent number: 8356332
    Abstract: A method comprises operations for receiving a binary data structure including a portion representing a protocol validation specification expressed in a respective protocol validation specification language and for receiving a security policy rule having an action part specifying that the binary data structure is to be used for verifying that application protocol payload of network packets complies with the protocol validation specification. After receiving the binary data structure and the security policy rule, an operation is performed for verifying that application protocol payload of received network packets complies with the protocol validation specification. Such verifying is initiated in response to determining that the security policy rule applies to the received network packets and such verifying includes validating the application protocol payload of the received network packets against the binary data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Lawrence E. Menten, Alan S. Jeffrey, Thomas B. Reddington
  • Extensible Protocol Validation
    Publication number: 20110030028
    Abstract: A method comprises operations for receiving a binary data structure including a portion representing a protocol validation specification expressed in a respective protocol validation specification language and for receiving a security policy rule having an action part specifying that the binary data structure is to be used for verifying that application protocol payload of network packets complies with the protocol validation specification. After receiving the binary data structure and the security policy rule, an operation is performed for verifying that application protocol payload of received network packets complies with the protocol validation specification. Such verifying is initiated in response to determining that the security policy rule applies to the received network packets and such verifying includes validating the application protocol payload of the received network packets against the binary data structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventors: Lawrence E. Menten, Alan S. Jeffrey, Thomas B. Reddington