Patents by Inventor Mayilraj Kirshnan

Mayilraj Kirshnan 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).

  • Controlling computer program extensions in a network device
    Patent number: 8239923
    Abstract: A network infrastructure element such as a packet data router or switch hosts an application program and one or more user program extensions to the application program. Logic in the network element is configured to perform creating and storing one or more default program security permissions; receiving a user-defined security policy that defines one or more user extension security permissions for the one or more user program extensions; creating and storing only each of the one or more user extension security permissions that do not conflict with the default program security permissions; receiving a request from one of the user program extensions to access a resource of the apparatus or the network; permitting the request to access the resource or the network only when the access does not violate the user extension security permissions and the default program security permissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mayilraj Kirshnan, Kollivakkam Raghavan
  • Controlling computer program extensions in a network device
    Publication number: 20060288404
    Abstract: A network infrastructure element such as a packet data router or switch hosts an application program and one or more user program extensions to the application program. Logic in the network element is configured to perform creating and storing one or more default program security permissions; receiving a user-defined security policy that defines one or more user extension security permissions for the one or more user program extensions; creating and storing only each of the one or more user extension security permissions that do not conflict with the default program security permissions; receiving a request from one of the user program extensions to access a resource of the apparatus or the network; permitting the request to access the resource or the network only when the access does not violate the user extension security permissions and the default program security permissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2006
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Inventors: Mayilraj Kirshnan, Kollivakkam Raghavan