Patents by Inventor Douglas Keith Brubacher

Douglas Keith Brubacher 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).

  • Automatic discovery and configuration of external network devices
    Patent number: 7418486
    Abstract: An improved system and method for discovering and configuring secure network topologies responds to existing networking environments and encompasses the dynamic detection and configuration of an appropriate hardware or software solution. In an embodiment of the invention, a broadcast mechanism is used to provide hardware device discovery while application programming interfaces provide discovery of software firewalls. In a further embodiment, a polling technique is used to ensure that the configuration of a gateway device does not change, endangering the protected network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas Keith Brubacher, Huseyin Gokmen Gok
  • Automatic discovery and configuration of external network devices
    Publication number: 20040249907
    Abstract: An improved system and method for discovering and configuring secure network topologies responds to existing networking environments and encompasses the dynamic detection and configuration of an appropriate hardware or software solution. In an embodiment of the invention, a broadcast mechanism is used to provide hardware device discovery while application programming interfaces provide discovery of software firewalls. In a further embodiment, a polling technique is used to ensure that the configuration of a gateway device does not change, endangering the protected network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2003
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas Keith Brubacher, Huseyin Gokmen Gok