Patents by Inventor Minheng Tan

Minheng Tan 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).

  • System and method for creating a secure tunnel for communications over a network
    Patent number: 8340103
    Abstract: A system and method for establishing a virtual local area network (LAN) between a local device and a remote device are provided. The local device and the remote device may each have a physical and a virtual network interface card (NIC), and a virtual driver associated with each respective device virtual NIC may assign a Media Access Control (MAC) address to the virtual NIC and an Internet Protocol (IP) address to the physical NIC. The local device may communicate an IP to MAC address translation to the remote device that maps the assigned IP address to the assigned MAC address. Thereafter, the remote device may transmit secure data that can be received by the local device. For example, the remote device may encapsulate the data being communicated as well as the IP to MAC address translation for the local device into an HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: CA, Inc.
    Inventor: Minheng Tan
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING A SECURE TUNNEL FOR COMMUNICATIONS OVER A NETWORK
    Publication number: 20110153793
    Abstract: A system and method for establishing a virtual local area network (LAN) between a local device and a remote device are provided. The local device and the remote device may each have a physical and a virtual network interface card (NIC), and a virtual driver associated with each respective device virtual NIC may assign a Media Access Control (MAC) address to the virtual NIC and an Internet Protocol (IP) address to the physical NIC. The local device may communicate an IP to MAC address translation to the remote device that maps the assigned IP address to the assigned MAC address. Thereafter, the remote device may transmit secure data that can be received by the local device. For example, the remote device may encapsulate the data being communicated as well as the IP to MAC address translation for the local device into an HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: Computer Associates Think, Inc.
    Inventor: Minheng Tan