Patents by Inventor Eric Erwin Youngblut

Eric Erwin Youngblut 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).

  • Method and system for distributing security policies
    Patent number: 7831826
    Abstract: A method and system for distributing and enforcing security policies is provided. A firewall agent executing at a host computer system that is to be protected receives security policies for the enforcement engines responsible for enforcing the security policies on the host computer system. A security policy has rules that each provide a condition and action to be performed when the condition is satisfied. A rule also has a rule type that is used by the distribution system to identify the security components that are responsible for enforcing the rules. To distribute the security policies that have been received at a host computer system, the firewall agent identifies to which enforcement engine a rule applies based in part on rule type. The firewall agent then distributes the rule to the identified enforcement engine, which then enforces the rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Shirish Koti, Narasimha Rao S. S. Nagampalli, Maxim Alexandrovich Ivanov, Sachin C. Sheth, Emanuel Paleologu, Yun Lin, Eric Erwin Youngblut
  • Method and system for distributing security policies
    Patent number: 7509493
    Abstract: A method and system for distributing and enforcing security policies is provided. A firewall agent executing at a host computer system that is to be protected receives security policies for the enforcement engines responsible for enforcing the security policies on the host computer system. A security policy has rules that each provide a condition and action to be performed when the condition is satisfied. A rule also has a rule type that is used by the distribution system to identify the security components that are responsible for enforcing the rules. To distribute the security policies that have been received at a host computer system, the firewall agent identifies to which enforcement engine a rule applies based in part on rule type. The firewall agent then distributes the rule to the identified enforcement engine, which then enforces the rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Shirish Koti, Narasimha Rao S. S. Nagampalli, Maxim Alexandrovich Ivanov, Sachin C. Sheth, Emanuel Paleologu, Yun Lin, Eric Erwin Youngblut