Patents by Inventor Andy Ness

Andy Ness 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: 11018860
    Abstract: The techniques discussed herein relate to providing a highly available and reliable secret distribution infrastructure. In an implementation, a key master service (KMS) system is disclosed. The KMS system includes one or more computer readable storage media having program instructions stored thereon which, when executed by one or more processing systems, direct the one or more processing systems to identify a hydration event and, responsive to the hydration event, determine if other KMS systems are running in a secret distribution infrastructure. The program instructions, when executed by one or more processing systems, further direct the KMS system to hydrate the KMS system with secret information obtained from the one or more of the other KMS systems when the other KMS systems are running in the secret distribution infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andy Ness, Catherine Amy McDonald, Jeffrey E. Steinbok, Prajakta Sudhir Samant, Tyler Pennington, Nicola Alfeo
  • Publication number: 20180123781
    Abstract: The techniques discussed herein relate to providing fault tolerant automatic secret rotation for secrets maintained in a secret distribution infrastructure. In an implementation, an apparatus includes one or more computer readable storage media and a secret rotation service including program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media. The program instructions, when executed by one or more processing systems of a key master service (KMS) system, direct the one or more processing systems to rotate one or more secrets being served by the KMS system and provide other components of the secret distribution infrastructure with rotation information identifying the one or more secrets. The instructions, when executed, further direct the one or more processing system to validate that the one or more secrets have been rotated at the other components of the secret distribution infrastructure and, once validated, publish the rotation information to a metadata storage service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Andy Ness, Manson Ng, Jeffrey E. Steinbok, Jeff McDowell, Patrick Moulhaud
  • Publication number: 20180123791
    Abstract: The techniques discussed herein relate to providing a highly available and reliable secret distribution infrastructure. In an implementation, a key master service (KMS) system is disclosed. The KMS system includes one or more computer readable storage media having program instructions stored thereon which, when executed by one or more processing systems, direct the one or more processing systems to identify a hydration event and, responsive to the hydration event, determine if other KMS systems are running in a secret distribution infrastructure. The program instructions, when executed by one or more processing systems, further direct the KMS system to hydrate the KMS system with secret information obtained from the one or more of the other KMS systems when the other KMS systems are running in the secret distribution infrastructure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Andy Ness, Catherine Amy McDonald, Jeffrey E. Steinbok, Prajakta Sudhir Samant, Tyler Pennington, Nick Alfeo