Patents by Inventor Daniel R. Perkins

Daniel R. Perkins 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: 11902145
    Abstract: Systems and methods include receiving network communication information about hosts in a network and applications executed on the hosts; automatically generating one or more microsegments in the network based on analysis of the obtained network communication information, wherein each microsegment of the one or more microsegments is a grouping of resources including the hosts and the applications executed on the hosts that have rules for network communication; and providing the one or more microsegments to one or more hosts of the hosts, for use by the one or more hosts to allow or block communications locally based on the one or more microsegments. Each of the one or more microsegments can be a grouping of workloads inside a data center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Zscaler, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Laplante, Peter Nahas, Xing Li, Suji Suresh, Daniel R. Perkins, Peter Smith
  • Publication number: 20230104751
    Abstract: Systems and methods include receiving network communication information about hosts in a network and applications executed on the hosts; automatically generating one or more microsegments in the network based on analysis of the obtained network communication information, wherein each microsegment of the one or more microsegments is a grouping of resources including the hosts and the applications executed on the hosts that have rules for network communication; and providing the one or more microsegments to one or more hosts of the hosts, for use by the one or more hosts to allow or block communications locally based on the one or more microsegments. Each of the one or more microsegments can be a grouping of workloads inside a data center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Scott Laplante, Peter Nahas, Xing Li, Suji Suresh, Daniel R. Perkins, Peter Smith
  • Patent number: 11496387
    Abstract: Systems and methods include, subsequent to performing auto segmentation on a network that includes a set of policies of allowable and block communications, observing communication between a plurality of hosts on the network; determining unassigned communication paths based on the observing that are either blocked because of a lack of a policy of the set of policies or because there is no policy of the set of policies for coverage thereof; and assigning the unassigned communication paths to corresponding policies of the set of policies. The assigning can be based on heuristics. The assigning can be performed without reperforming auto segmentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Zscaler, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Laplante, Peter Nahas, Xing Li, Suji Suresh, Daniel R. Perkins, Peter Smith
  • Publication number: 20210314250
    Abstract: Systems and methods include, subsequent to performing auto segmentation on a network that includes a set of policies of allowable and block communications, observing communication between a plurality of hosts on the network; determining unassigned communication paths based on the observing that are either blocked because of a lack of a policy of the set of policies or because there is no policy of the set of policies for coverage thereof; and assigning the unassigned communication paths to corresponding policies of the set of policies. The assigning can be based on heuristics. The assigning can be performed without reperforming auto segmentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Scott Laplante, Peter Nahas, Xing Li, Suji Suresh, Daniel R. Perkins, Peter Smith
  • Publication number: 20110016828
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for processing a plastic container by applying a label to a cap, threading the cap on a bottle, and closing dispensing doors on the cap before a heat shrink label sleeve is applied. The label is applied to the cap in a predetermined orientation with respect to the cap and the cap is threaded onto the bottle by a threader wheel adjacent a starwheel that carries caps and bottles in alignment. The dispenser door is closed by a peg that is urged downwardly into contact with the dispenser door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Richard A. Parker, George E. Ervin, William J. Connelly, Daniel R. Perkins, Oscar O. Medina, Kerry T. McColly
  • Patent number: 4736338
    Abstract: A simulation technique for modeling the function of logic elements containing memory is disclosed. The technique uses a table to represent the logical function of the devices that are being simulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1988
    Assignee: Silicon Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Saxe, Daniel R. Perkins