Patents by Inventor Chuanxin FANG

Chuanxin FANG 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).

  • On-demand emergency management operations in a distributed computing system
    Patent number: 11451405
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for providing on-demand emergency management. On-demand emergency management includes emergency management operations (e.g., certificate update operations or managed-secrets rollover operations) for accelerated deployment and expedited installation of certificates or secrets. In operation, a host secret manager on a host machine communicates with client secret managers on virtual machines running the host machine, to provide expedited installation of secrets on the virtual machines. During the certificate update operations, the host secret manager communicates the certificate update secret package having a new secret state to a client secret manager that installs the new certificate state on the virtual machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Scott Lounsberry, Saurav Sinha, Chuanxin Fang, Ashok Chandrasekaran
  • On-Demand Emergency Management Operations in a Distributed Computing System
    Publication number: 20200267004
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for providing on-demand emergency management. On-demand emergency management includes emergency management operations (e.g., certificate update operations or managed-secrets rollover operations) for accelerated deployment and expedited installation of certificates or secrets. In operation, a host secret manager on a host machine communicates with client secret managers on virtual machines running the host machine, to provide expedited installation of secrets on the virtual machines. During the certificate update operations, the host secret manager communicates the certificate update secret package having a new secret state to a client secret manager that installs the new certificate state on the virtual machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Brian Scott LOUNSBERRY, Saurav SINHA, Chuanxin FANG, Ashok CHANDRASEKARAN