Patents by Inventor Jeffrey L. Douglass

Jeffrey L. Douglass 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).

  • Policy-based load distribution between host-based packet processing units
    Patent number: 10237239
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a network security subsystem in a virtual machine monitor for policy based load distribution among a plurality of packet processing units. Responsive to receiving a packet from a virtual machine, the network security subsystem compares the packet to rules in a load distribution policy in the network security subsystem. Responsive to the packet matching a rule in the load distribution policy, the network security subsystem identifies a packet processing unit list and an action in the matching rule. The network security subsystem distributes the packet to a selected packet processing unit from the packet processing unit list based on the action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. Douglass, Cheng-Ta Lee, James B. Peterson, Deepti Sachdev
  • Policy-Based Load Distribution Between Host-Based Packet Processing Units
    Publication number: 20170163602
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a network security subsystem in a virtual machine monitor for policy based load distribution among a plurality of packet processing units. Responsive to receiving a packet from a virtual machine, the network security subsystem compares the packet to rules in a load distribution policy in the network security subsystem. Responsive to the packet matching a rule in the load distribution policy, the network security subsystem identifies a packet processing unit list and an action in the matching rule. The network security subsystem distributes the packet to a selected packet processing unit from the packet processing unit list based on the action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. Douglass, Cheng-Ta Lee, James B. Peterson, Deepti Sachdev