Patents by Inventor Anthony Ffrench

Anthony Ffrench 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: 10044756
    Abstract: An application deployed in a public cloud is enabled to access an on-premises resource securely and without requiring additional ports on a firewall. A pair of security gateways is instantiated, one at the cloud, and another located on-premises. Each gateway can access information that is necessary to locate and establish a secure connection to the on-premises resource. In response to a determination that the application needs to access the on-premises resource, the data set is used to locate the resource. A communication request is then issued from the cloud gateway to the on-premises gateway over a socket-based communication channel established between the gateways. The communication request is sent over an HTTP-based protocol such that the application is able to access the on-premises resource without requiring an additional IP address/port to be defined at the firewall. Proxied connectivity is then enabled from the application to the on-premises resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Linwood Hugh Overby, Jr., Anthony Ffrench, Barry Mosakowski, Adolfo Francisco Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 10038721
    Abstract: An application deployed in a public cloud is enabled to access an on-premises resource securely and without requiring additional ports on a firewall. A pair of security gateways is instantiated, one at the cloud, and another located on-premises. Each gateway can access information that is necessary to locate and establish a secure connection to the on-premises resource. In response to a determination that the application needs to access the on-premises resource, the data set is used to locate the resource. A communication request is then issued from the cloud gateway to the on-premises gateway over a socket-based communication channel established between the gateways. The communication request is sent over an HTTP-based protocol such that the application is able to access the on-premises resource without requiring an additional IP address/port to be defined at the firewall. Proxied connectivity is then enabled from the application to the on-premises resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Linwood Hugh Overby, Jr., Anthony Ffrench, Barry Mosakowski, Adolfo Francisco Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 9697047
    Abstract: A second memory allocator receives a request to allocate memory from a second process of the second memory allocator executing on a computer, and determines that memory for allocation to the second process is not available from a memory hoard of the second memory allocator. The second memory allocator determines that memory for allocation to the second process is not available from an operating system of the computer, and transmits the request to release memory to a first memory allocator. The first memory allocator of a first process executing on the computer receives the request from the second memory allocator executing on the computer to release memory. Responsive to the request from the second memory allocator to release memory, the first memory allocator releases hoarded memory previously hoarded for allocation to the first process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Anthony Ffrench
  • Patent number: 9672352
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to an isolated program execution environment. An aspect includes receiving, by the isolated program execution environment on a computer comprising a processor and a memory, a request to run a program. Another aspect includes wrapping program code corresponding to the program as a function. Another aspect includes cloning a real global object of the isolated program execution environment to create a fake global object. Another aspect includes passing the fake global object to the function. Another aspect includes executing the function, such that the function executes the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anthony Ffrench, Libra C. Huang, Timothy J. Smith, Chih-Wen Su, Yi-Hong Wang
  • Publication number: 20170061120
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to an isolated program execution environment. An aspect includes receiving, by the isolated program execution environment on a computer comprising a processor and a memory, a request to run a program. Another aspect includes wrapping program code corresponding to the program as a function. Another aspect includes cloning a real global object of the isolated program execution environment to create a fake global object. Another aspect includes passing the fake global object to the function. Another aspect includes executing the function, such that the function executes the program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Anthony Ffrench, Libra C. Huang, Timothy J. Smith, Chih-Wen Su, Yi-Hong Wang
  • Patent number: 9582661
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to an isolated program execution environment. An aspect includes receiving, by the isolated program execution environment on a computer comprising a processor and a memory, a request to run a program. Another aspect includes wrapping program code corresponding to the program as a function. Another aspect includes cloning a real global object of the isolated program execution environment to create a fake global object. Another aspect includes passing the fake global object to the function. Another aspect includes executing the function, such that the function executes the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anthony Ffrench, Libra C. Huang, Timothy J. Smith, Chih-Wen Su, Yi-Hong Wang
  • Patent number: 9536082
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to an isolated program execution environment. An aspect includes receiving, by the isolated program execution environment on a computer comprising a processor and a memory, a request to run a program. Another aspect includes wrapping program code corresponding to the program as a function. Another aspect includes cloning a real global object of the isolated program execution environment to create a fake global object. Another aspect includes passing the fake global object to the function. Another aspect includes executing the function, such that the function executes the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anthony Ffrench, Libra C. Huang, Timothy J. Smith, Chih-Wen Su, Yi-Hong Wang
  • Publication number: 20160275286
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to an isolated program execution environment. An aspect includes receiving, by the isolated program execution environment on a computer comprising a processor and a memory, a request to run a program. Another aspect includes wrapping program code corresponding to the program as a function. Another aspect includes cloning a real global object of the isolated program execution environment to create a fake global object. Another aspect includes passing the fake global object to the function. Another aspect includes executing the function, such that the function executes the program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Anthony Ffrench, Libra C. Huang, Timothy J. Smith, Chih-Wen Su, Yi-Hong Wang
  • Publication number: 20160274876
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to an isolated program execution environment. An aspect includes receiving, by the isolated program execution environment on a computer comprising a processor and a memory, a request to run a program. Another aspect includes wrapping program code corresponding to the program as a function. Another aspect includes cloning a real global object of the isolated program execution environment to create a fake global object. Another aspect includes passing the fake global object to the function. Another aspect includes executing the function, such that the function executes the program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Anthony Ffrench, Libra C. Huang, Timothy J. Smith, Chih-Wen Su, Yi-Hong Wang
  • Publication number: 20160241596
    Abstract: An application deployed in a public cloud is enabled to access an on-premises resource securely and without requiring additional ports on a firewall. A pair of security gateways is instantiated, one at the cloud, and another located on-premises. Each gateway can access information that is necessary to locate and establish a secure connection to the on-premises resource. In response to a determination that the application needs to access the on-premises resource, the data set is used to locate the resource. A communication request is then issued from the cloud gateway to the on-premises gateway over a socket-based communication channel established between the gateways. The communication request is sent over an HTTP-based protocol such that the application is able to access the on-premises resource without requiring an additional IP address/port to be defined at the firewall. Proxied connectivity is then enabled from the application to the on-premises resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Linwood Hugh Overby, JR., Anthony Ffrench, Barry Mosakowski, Adolfo Francisco Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20160241633
    Abstract: An application deployed in a public cloud is enabled to access an on-premises resource securely and without requiring additional ports on a firewall. A pair of security gateways is instantiated, one at the cloud, and another located on-premises. Each gateway can access information that is necessary to locate and establish a secure connection to the on-premises resource. In response to a determination that the application needs to access the on-premises resource, the data set is used to locate the resource. A communication request is then issued from the cloud gateway to the on-premises gateway over a socket-based communication channel established between the gateways. The communication request is sent over an HTTP-based protocol such that the application is able to access the on-premises resource without requiring an additional IP address/port to be defined at the firewall. Proxied connectivity is then enabled from the application to the on-premises resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Linwood Hugh Overby, JR., Anthony Ffrench, Barry Mosakowski, Adolfo Francisco Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20140089624
    Abstract: A second memory allocator receives a request to allocate memory from a second process of the second memory allocator executing on a computer, and determines that memory for allocation to the second process is not available from a memory hoard of the second memory allocator. The second memory allocator determines that memory for allocation to the second process is not available from an operating system of the computer, and transmits the request to release memory to a first memory allocator. The first memory allocator of a first process executing on the computer receives the request from the second memory allocator executing on the computer to release memory. Responsive to the request from the second memory allocator to release memory, the first memory allocator releases hoarded memory previously hoarded for allocation to the first process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Anthony Ffrench