Patents by Inventor John Mailan Pisello

John Mailan Pisello 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).

  • Method and apparatus for managing access to set of converged entitlement resources
    Patent number: 7349904
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and program-product are provided for managing user access to a converged set of entitlement resources residing within an entitlement resource repository. Each of the entitlement resources is marked with an entitlement identifier. When a requester attempts to access an entitlement resource, an authentication token corresponding to the requester is sent to one or more entitlement authorities associated with the entitlement resource. The entitlement authority creates a set of entitlement identifiers associated with the requestor. This set of entitlement identifiers associated with the requestor is then compared with the entitlement identifiers associated with the entitlement resource to determine if the requestor has authority to access the entitlement resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jason J. Illg, Sean Todd Murray, John Mailan Pisello