Patents by Inventor Ian Shaughnessy

Ian Shaughnessy 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).

  • System and method for providing a framework for network appliance management in a distributed computing environment
    Patent number: 7089259
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a framework for network appliance management in a distributed computing environment is disclosed. A status report periodically received from each of a plurality of network appliances is recorded. Each status report contains health and status information and application-specific data for each network appliance. Configuration settings for each network appliance progressively assembled concurrent to providing installable components are maintained. A catalog listing currently installable components for each network appliance based on the configuration settings is dynamically provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: McAfee, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Kouznetsov, Michael Chin-Hwan Pak, Daniel J. Melchione, Ian Shaughnessy