Patents by Inventor Patrick Edward McDowell

Patrick Edward McDowell 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).

  • Patent number: 10637738
    Abstract: A system and method for generating network traffic logs including product identifiers is presented. A first computer system includes a first memory coupled to a first processor. The first memory includes instructions that upon execution cause the first computer system to receive a log entry from a second computer system. The log entry includes a virtual network interface identification associated with a first virtual computer system instance. The instructions cause the first computer system to determine a machine image using the virtual network interface identification, and update a record indicating usage of virtual computer system instances created using the machine image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Patrick Edward McDowell
  • Patent number: 10341298
    Abstract: A technology is described for applying an encrypted customer security rule set to an application firewall. An example method may include obtaining an encrypted customer security rule from a shared data store for use by an application firewall that operates at an entry point to a computing service environment that utilizes security rules to monitor, filter, and manipulate network traffic. The customer encryption key used to decrypt the encrypted customer security rule in volatile computer memory may be obtained from a key data store and the encrypted customer security rule may be decrypted in the volatile computer memory using the customer encryption key, thereby forming a corresponding unencrypted customer security rule in the volatile computer memory. A volatile computer memory location containing the unencrypted customer security rule may be provided to the application firewall to enable the unencrypted customer security rule to be applied by the application firewall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Adam Lichtenberg, Patrick Edward McDowell, Matthew Gordon Yanchyshyn