Patents by Inventor Jeffrey A. Lucovsky

Jeffrey A. Lucovsky 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).

  • Publication number: 20120198542
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided for sharing one or more security appliances. A trusted system component associated with an application of a plurality of applications in a logically partitioned data processing system sets a destination address of a received packet to an address of a security appliance shared by the plurality of applications. The trusted system component sends the received packet to the security appliance. The trusted system component receives a response from the security appliance. The trusted system component determines whether the response indicates permitting the received packet to proceed to the intended recipient. The trusted system component sends the received packet to the recipient in response to the response indicating permitting the received packet to proceed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lap T. Huynh, Constantinos Kassimis, Jeffrey A. Lucovsky, Linwood H. Overby, JR., Jerry W. Stevens
  • Publication number: 20110126194
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided for sharing one or more security appliances. A trusted system component associated with an application of a plurality of applications in a logically partitioned data processing system sets a destination address of a received packet to an address of a security appliance shared by the plurality of applications. The trusted system component sends the received packet to the security appliance. The trusted system component receives a response from the security appliance. The trusted system component determines whether the response indicates permitting the received packet to proceed to the intended recipient. The trusted system component sends the received packet to the recipient in response to the response indicating permitting the received packet to proceed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lap T. Huynh, Constantinos Kassimis, Jeffrey A. Lucovsky, Linwood H. Overby, JR., Jerry W. Stevens
  • Patent number: 6868450
    Abstract: A system and method for a process attribute based computer network filter assigns a process attribute to a process executing on a computing device and assigns a network attribute to a network interface card (NIC) associated with the computing device. When the process desires to send a communication packet to another process on a different computing device over a network to which the NIC is connected, the process sends an application program interface (API) system call to the NIC. The API call is intercepted by a system call trap handler, which, in cooperation with a session filter driver and a network filter driver, determines the process attribute associated with the process and the network attribute associated with the NIC. If the session filter driver and the network filter driver, in cooperation with the system call trap handler, determine that the process attribute and the network attribute correspond, then the communication packet is allowed to pass to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Jeffrey A. Lucovsky