Patents by Inventor Benjamin Z. Chen

Benjamin Z. Chen 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: 9876859
    Abstract: Exemplary methods for performing session timeout include periodically receiving a first plurality of client requests corresponding to the first user session from a client, the client requests including a request time indicating a time when a corresponding client request was transmitted by the client, and a user active time indicating a time when a user last accessed the server via the first user session as of the time when the corresponding client request was transmitted by the client. In one embodiment, the method includes determining whether the first user session has timed out based on one or more request time and one or more user active time included the one or more client requests of the first plurality of client requests. In one embodiment, the method includes in response to determining the first user session has timed out, terminating the first user session and the SSO session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Plummer, Benjamin Z. Chen, Ron Verbruggen