Patents by Inventor Bruce Fortune

Bruce Fortune 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: 11816192
    Abstract: A system may include a license publishing server, a plurality of licensing servers arranged in a cluster and configured to communicate with the license publishing server to obtain a given number of authorized licenses for virtual computing sessions associated with the cluster, and a plurality of geographically distributed virtualization servers configured to obtain authorized licenses from the plurality of licensing servers and run virtual computing sessions for client computing devices based upon the authorized licenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Chinmay Dargar, Bruce Fortune
  • Publication number: 20210200838
    Abstract: A system may include a license publishing server, a plurality of licensing servers arranged in a cluster and configured to communicate with the license publishing server to obtain a given number of authorized licenses for virtual computing sessions associated with the cluster, and a plurality of geographically distributed virtualization servers configured to obtain authorized licenses from the plurality of licensing servers and run virtual computing sessions for client computing devices based upon the authorized licenses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Chinmay Dargar, Bruce Fortune
  • Patent number: 10949505
    Abstract: A system may include a license publishing server and a plurality of licensing servers arranged in a cluster and configured to communicate with the license publishing server to obtain a given number of authorized licenses for virtual computing sessions associated with the cluster. The system may also include a plurality of virtualization servers configured to obtain authorized licenses from the plurality of licensing servers and run virtual computing sessions for client computing devices based upon the authorized licenses. The licensing servers may cooperate with one another to distribute licenses to the virtualization servers based upon a consensus protocol and the given number of authorized licenses associated with the cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Chinmay Dargar, Bruce Fortune
  • Publication number: 20190005205
    Abstract: A system may include a license publishing server and a plurality of licensing servers arranged in a cluster and configured to communicate with the license publishing server to obtain a given number of authorized licenses for virtual computing sessions associated with the cluster. The system may also include a plurality of virtualization servers configured to obtain authorized licenses from the plurality of licensing servers and run virtual computing sessions for client computing devices based upon the authorized licenses. The licensing servers may cooperate with one another to distribute licenses to the virtualization servers based upon a consensus protocol and the given number of authorized licenses associated with the cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Chinmay Dargar, Bruce Fortune