Patents by Inventor Mahesh Kumar Rathi

Mahesh Kumar Rathi 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 system for maintaining client server security associations in a distributed computing system
    Patent number: 6141758
    Abstract: A method and system for maintaining a secure association between a client and a server in a distributed computing system by computing a session identifier as a function of a Kerberos-based authentication ticket. The session identifier is independently derived or verified by the client and the server upon a first request by the client to the server, and each subsequent request by the client to the server is tagged with this session identifier to provide a reliable security association.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Messaoud Benantar, Robert Howard High, Jr., Mahesh Kumar Rathi