Patents by Inventor Nathaniel Benjamin Soule

Nathaniel Benjamin Soule 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 protecting network-facing services
    Patent number: 11310242
    Abstract: A system for performing security functions in a service-oriented computer system includes a router node configured to forward at least one packet of at least one service request to at least one server computer adapted to process the at least one service request; a first server node configured to execute, for the at least one packet, a first protocol layer of a network protocol stack, determine whether the at least one packet is compliant at the first protocol layer, and provide the at least one packet to a second server node responsive to determining that the at least one packet is compliant at the first protocol layer. The second server node is configured to execute, for the at least one packet, a second protocol layer of the network protocol stack, and determine whether the at least one packet is compliant at the second protocol layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Nathaniel Benjamin Soule, Partha Pal, Aaron Paulos
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING NETWORK-FACING SERVICES
    Publication number: 20200228538
    Abstract: A system for performing security functions in a service-oriented computer system includes a router node configured to forward at least one packet of at least one service request to at least one server computer adapted to process the at least one service request; a first server node configured to execute, for the at least one packet, a first protocol layer of a network protocol stack, determine whether the at least one packet is compliant at the first protocol layer, and provide the at least one packet to a second server node responsive to determining that the at least one packet is compliant at the first protocol layer. The second server node is configured to execute, for the at least one packet, a second protocol layer of the network protocol stack, and determine whether the at least one packet is compliant at the second protocol layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Nathaniel Benjamin Soule, Partha Pal, Aaron Paulos