Patents by Inventor Kenneth James Kranz

Kenneth James Kranz 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).

  • Multi-tenancy governance in a cloud computing environment
    Patent number: 9906533
    Abstract: A cloud computing system includes a plurality of tenants that are permitted to access cloud hosted applications. The system includes an input governance layer associated with each application, and an output governance layer associated with each application. The input governance layer and the output governance layer include an encapsulation of a cloud hosted application. The governance layers receive a request from a tenant-user to access a first application on the cloud computing system, check a governance database to determine if the tenant-user is authorized to access the first application, and allows or denies access accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: CA, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth James Kranz
  • Systems and methods for deploying legacy software in the cloud
    Patent number: 9661064
    Abstract: A system, method, apparatus and computer program product is described to provide a plurality of connectors, the connectors configured to support one or more applications in at least one configuration selected from a group of configurations including: i) a non-tenant, and non-tenant aware, application, ii) a non-tenant, but tenant aware, application, iii) a many tenant application, iv) a multi-tenant application, and v) a native multi-tenant application. Also provided are one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) to the connectors, the one or more APIs providing a substantially uniform interface to applications supported by the connectors. In one embodiment, a governance layer provides the APIs, and the governance layer communicates with the connectors, so that an application's tenancy support is obfuscated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: CA, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth James Kranz, George Curran
  • MULTI-TENANCY GOVERNANCE IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20160197926
    Abstract: A cloud computing system includes a plurality of tenants that are permitted to access cloud hosted applications. The system includes an input governance layer associated with each application, and an output governance layer associated with each application. The input governance layer and the output governance layer include an encapsulation of a cloud hosted application. The governance layers receive a request from a tenant-user to access a first application on the cloud computing system, check a governance database to determine if the tenant-user is authorized to access the first application, and allows or denies access accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventor: Kenneth James Kranz
  • Multi-tenancy governance in a cloud computing environment
    Patent number: 9323939
    Abstract: A cloud computing system includes a plurality of tenants that are permitted to access cloud hosted applications. The system includes an input governance layer associated with each application, and an output governance layer associated with each application. The input governance layer and the output governance layer include an encapsulation of a cloud hosted application. The governance layers receive a request from a tenant-user to access a first application on the cloud computing system, check a governance database to determine if the tenant-user is authorized to access the first application, and allows or denies access accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: CA, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth James Kranz
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEPLOYING LEGACY SOFTWARE IN THE CLOUD
    Publication number: 20150215376
    Abstract: A system, method, apparatus and computer program product is described to provide a plurality of connectors, the connectors configured to support one or more applications in at least one configuration selected from a group of configurations including: i) a non-tenant, and non-tenant aware, application, ii) a non-tenant, but tenant aware, application, iii) a many tenant application, iv) a multi-tenant application, and v) a native multi-tenant application. Also provided are one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) to the connectors, the one or more APIs providing a substantially uniform interface to applications supported by the connectors. In one embodiment, a governance layer provides the APIs, and the governance layer communicates with the connectors, so that an application's tenancy support is obfuscated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: CA, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth James Kranz, George Curran
  • MULTI-TENANCY GOVERNANCE IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20140173694
    Abstract: A cloud computing system includes a plurality of tenants that are permitted to access cloud hosted applications. The system includes an input governance layer associated with each application, and an output governance layer associated with each application. The input governance layer and the output governance layer include an encapsulation of a cloud hosted application. The governance layers receive a request from a tenant-user to access a first application on the cloud computing system, check a governance database to determine if the tenant-user is authorized to access the first application, and allows or denies access accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: CA, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth James Kranz