Patents by Inventor Jonathan M. Jensen

Jonathan M. Jensen 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).

  • Tenant life cycle management for a software as a service platform
    Patent number: 8291490
    Abstract: Managing user access to application-specific capabilities of a system includes maintaining data correlating application-specific capabilities for each of the applications of the system, where the application-specific capabilities of different applications are independent of each other. Managing user access also includes maintaining data correlating user identifiers with user roles, maintaining data correlating user roles with application-specific capabilities, and managing the data using a security module that accesses the data correlating application-specific capabilities, data correlating user identifiers, and the data correlating user roles. The system may have a plurality of tenants and wherein each of the tenants subscribes to one or more of the applications. Each of the users may correspond to a particular one of the tenants. Each tenant may subscribe to a particular set of applications/features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Zahid N. Ahmed, Jonathan M. Jensen, Juniad Saiyed, Patrick E. Bozeman, David Victor Sahagian, Richard Perkett, Andrew Wilson Homer