Patents by Inventor Glen R. SIMPSON

Glen R. SIMPSON 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).

  • Common serverless security API
    Patent number: 11182474
    Abstract: System and method for executing a security operation for microservices/serverless function of a microservices-based/serverless application running on a physical infrastructure use a central security controller to execute the security operation for different microservices/serverless functions of the microservices-based/serverless application. Requests for the security operation are transmitted to the central security controller when communications are received at the different microservices/serverless functions of the microservices-based/serverless application. Results of the security operation are then received from the central security controller at the different microservices/serverless functions of the microservices-based/serverless application. Based on the results of the security operation, a task associated with the communications is executed at the different microservices/serverless functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Glen R. Simpson, Demin Yan, Adith Sudhakar, Zohar Hirshfeld
  • COMMON SERVERLESS SECURITY API
    Publication number: 20200242237
    Abstract: System and method for executing a security operation for microservices/serverless function of a microservices-based/serverless application running on a physical infrastructure use a central security controller to execute the security operation for different microservices/serverless functions of the microservices-based/serverless application. Requests for the security operation are transmitted to the central security controller when communications are received at the different microservices/serverless functions of the microservices-based/serverless application. Results of the security operation are then received from the central security controller at the different microservices/serverless functions of the microservices-based/serverless application. Based on the results of the security operation, a task associated with the communications is executed at the different microservices/serverless functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Glen R. SIMPSON, Demin YAN, Adith SUDHAKAR, Zohar HIRSHFELD