Patents by Inventor Frank Leo Mielke

Frank Leo Mielke 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 authenticating servers in a distributed application environment
    Patent number: 8990415
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and system for authenticating third tier servers in a distributed application environment by using a central procedure for recognizing and managing third tier server certificates at the client system side. Third tier server certificates which have been accepted by the central procedure are stored in a common database of the distributed application environment and the client system transmits via a secure connection to the server systems all necessary information of said third tier server certificates being accepted as trustworthy for determining to accept or to decline a third tier server. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention only fingerprints of third tier server certificates being accepted as trustworthy together with server name which has transmitted said third tier server certificate, and certificate name are transferred via a secure connection to the server systems of the distributed application environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Adrian Alvarez Diez, Frank Leo Mielke