Patents by Inventor Jonathan Brossard

Jonathan Brossard 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).

  • Patent number: 10749689
    Abstract: The disclosed technology for a hardware system to access a secure backend system uses non-volatile memory to hold encrypted secrets, volatile memory to hold decrypted secrets ready for use, a keys-for-all (K4A) server, and app servers running K4A clients. To access the backend system in production, each app server uses a decrypted secret and a certificate that identifies the app server and certifies its role and physical and logical location. At initialization of the app server, a K4A client is instantiated that launches and tracks processes, running on the app server, that are authorized to request decryption services. The K4A client responds to a decryption request from an authorized process, determined based on tracking of processes launched, by requesting decryption by a K4A server, using the certificate, and returns to the process, in volatile memory, a decrypted secret or a reference to the decrypted secret, decrypted by the K4A server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Prasad Peddada, Ryan Guest, Jonathan Brossard, Travis Emmert
  • Patent number: 10644890
    Abstract: The disclosed technology for a hardware system to access a secure backend system uses non-volatile memory to hold encrypted secrets, volatile memory to hold decrypted secrets ready for use, a keys-for-all (K4A) server, and app servers running K4A clients. To access the backend system in production, each app server uses a decrypted secret and a certificate that identifies the app server and certifies its role and physical and logical location. At initialization of the app server, a K4A client is instantiated that launches and tracks processes, running on the app server, that are authorized to request decryption services. The K4A client responds to a decryption request from an authorized process, determined based on tracking of processes launched, by requesting decryption by a K4A server, using the certificate, and returns to the process, in volatile memory, a decrypted secret or a reference to the decrypted secret, decrypted by the K4A server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: salesforce.com
    Inventors: Prasad Peddada, Ryan Guest, Jonathan Brossard, Travis Emmert
  • Patent number: 9866553
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for securing access to a computer device, that includes the step of establishing a secured connection and authentication of said computer device and the user of the computer device with a remote server, wherein the steps of establishing the secured connection and authentication are carried out upon the execution of commands included in a data set adapted for implementing the pre-start of the computer device before triggering the execution of the boot loader of the computer device operating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: TOUCAN SYSTEM
    Inventors: Jonathan Brossard, Nicolas Massaviol
  • Publication number: 20150121497
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for securing access to a computer device, that includes the step of establishing a secured connection and authentication of said computer device and the user of the computer device with a remote server, wherein the steps of establishing the secured connection and authentication are carried out upon the execution of commands included in a data set adapted for implementing the pre-start of the computer device before triggering the execution of the boot loader of the computer device operating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Jonathan Brossard, Nicolas Massaviol