Patents by Inventor Jonathan Birch

Jonathan Birch 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).

  • Techniques to store secret information for global data centers
    Patent number: 9135460
    Abstract: Techniques to store secret information for global data centers securely may provide a front end service for a back end data store. The front end service may be responsible for deployment, upgrade, and disaster recovery aspects, and so forth, of data center maintenance. Data centers may access data and data-related services from the back end data store through the front end service. Secrets that are needed to access secure data may be stored on behalf of the data centers without providing the secrets to the data centers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Birch, Amit Date, Daniel Jump, Vikas Malhotra, Bradley Albrecht, Ali Deniz Demircioglu
  • TECHNIQUES TO STORE SECRET INFORMATION FOR GLOBAL DATA CENTERS
    Publication number: 20130167200
    Abstract: Techniques to store secret information for global data centers securely are described. Various embodiments may provide a front end service for a back end data store. The front end service may be responsible for deployment, upgrade, and disaster recovery aspects, and so forth, of data center maintenance. Data centers may access data and data-related services from the back end data store through the front end service. Secrets that are needed to access secure data may be stored on behalf of the data centers without providing the secrets to the data centers. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan Birch, Amit Date, Daniel Jump, Vikas Malhotra, Bradley Albrecht, Ali Deniz Demircioglu