Patents by Inventor Grant Callaghan

Grant Callaghan 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).

  • Tag-based policy architecture
    Patent number: 10999328
    Abstract: A tag-based policy architecture enforces information technology (IT) policy in a virtualized computing environment using cryptographically-verifiable metadata to authenticate compute resources coupled to a computer network and to authorize access to protected resources of the network. The compute resources are illustratively virtual machine instances (VMIs) provided by a virtual data center (VDC) of the environment, whereas the protected resources are illustratively virtualized storage, network and/or other compute resources of the VDC. Each VMI includes an intermediary manager, e.g., metavisor. The tag-based policy architecture includes an infrastructure having a centralized policy decision end point (e.g., a control plane of the VDC) and distributed policy enforcement endpoints (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason A. Lango, Grant Callaghan, Marcel Moolenaar, Vinay Wagh, Rohan Desai, Matthew Page, Gary Menezes, Antoine Pourchet, Ramya Olichandran
  • TAG-BASED POLICY ARCHITECTURE
    Publication number: 20190306196
    Abstract: A tag-based policy architecture enforces information technology (IT) policy in a virtualized computing environment using cryptographically-verifiable metadata to authenticate compute resources coupled to a computer network and to authorize access to protected resources of the network. The compute resources are illustratively virtual machine instances (VMIs) provided by a virtual data center (VDC) of the environment, whereas the protected resources are illustratively virtualized storage, network and/or other compute resources of the VDC. Each VMI includes an intermediary manager, e.g., metavisor. The tag-based policy architecture includes an infrastructure having a centralized policy decision end point (e.g., a control plane of the VDC) and distributed policy enforcement endpoints (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Jason A. LANGO, Grant CALLAGHAN, Marcel MOOLENAAR, Vinay WAGH, Rohan DESAI, Matthew PAGE, Gary MENEZES, Antoine POURCHET, Ramya OLICHANDRAN
  • Tag-based policy architecture
    Patent number: 10356128
    Abstract: A tag-based policy architecture enforces information technology (IT) policy in a virtualized computing environment using cryptographically-verifiable metadata to authenticate compute resources coupled to a computer network and to authorize access to protected resources of the network. The compute resources are illustratively virtual machine instances (VMIs) provided by a virtual data center (VDC) of the environment, whereas the protected resources are illustratively virtualized storage, network and/or other compute resources of the VDC. Each VMI includes an intermediary manager, e.g., metavisor. The tag-based policy architecture includes an infrastructure having a centralized policy decision end point (e.g., a control plane of the VDC) and distributed policy enforcement endpoints (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason A. Lango, Grant Callaghan, Marcel Moolenaar, Vinay Wagh, Rohan Desai, Matthew Page, Gary Menezes, Antoine Pourchet, Ramya Olichandran