Patents by Inventor Paul Kallfelz

Paul Kallfelz 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: 7260838
    Abstract: Method, instructions and system for establishing and enforcing change password policy in a single sign-on environment. In response to receiving a change instruction identifying a first single sign-on password, the first single sign-on password is changed to create a second single sign-on password. Then a target password is retrieved. The target password is modified in a user selected manner to match the second single sign-on password to create a modified target password. The modified target password is stored. In response to a request from a user requesting access to an application, the modified target password is retrieved and the modified target password is provided to the requested application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Delee Bones, Richard Jay Cohen, Paul Kallfelz
  • Publication number: 20020078386
    Abstract: A method, instructions and system is provided for establishing and enforcing change password policy in a single sign on environment. In response to receiving a change instruction identifying a first single sign-on password, the first single sign-on password is changed to create a second single sign-on password. Then a target password is retrieved. The target password is modified in a user selected manner to match the second single sign-on password to create a modified target password. The modified target password is stored. In response to a request from a user requesting access to an application, the modified target password is retrieved and the modified target password is provided to the requested application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2000
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Inventors: Robert Delee Bones, Richard Jay Cohen, Paul Kallfelz
  • Patent number: 6178511
    Abstract: A single sign-on (SSO) mechanism to enable a given user to access a target application on a target resource in a distributed computer enterprise. One or more configuration directives each identifying a given logon process and any associated methods required to access the target application on the target resource are stored in a preferably global-accessible database (CIM). For each of a set of users, a preferably global-accessible database (PKM) stores user-specific and application-specific information enabling the user to access and logon to one or more target resources. During a particular session, a logon coordinator (LC) mechanism coordinates given user information with the configuration directive to enable the given user to perform a given action with respect to the target application without specifying the given logon process and the application-specific information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Jay Cohen, Richard Allen Forsberg, Paul A. Kallfelz, Jr., John Robert Meckstroth, Christopher James Pascoe, Andrea Lynn Snow-Weaver