Patents by Inventor Rage Hawley

Rage Hawley 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).

  • Scalable and automated secret management
    Patent number: 8881249
    Abstract: A secret (e.g. a password, key, certificate) is automatically generated by a system. For example, at the time of deployment of a computing machine, a password may be generated and securely stored by the system with other secrets. The password may be used by the system to perform various operations (e.g. configuring the machine, . . . ). When a secret is requested by a user to access a resource, a secret is provided to the user. Once the secret has been utilized by the user, the secret is reset and replaced with a newly generated secret. All/portion of the secrets may also be automatically regenerated. For example, when a breach occurs and/or is suspected, each of the secrets may be replaced with newly generated secrets and securely stored. Auditing and reporting may also be provided (e.g. each request/access to a secret is logged).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: James Nunn, Michael Friedman, Andrey Lukyanov, Rajmohan Rajagopalan, Rage Hawley, Shane Brady, Bryan Atwood
  • SCALABLE AND AUTOMATED SECRET MANAGEMENT
    Publication number: 20140165167
    Abstract: A secret (e.g. a password, key, certificate) is automatically generated by a system. For example, at the time of deployment of a computing machine, a password may be generated and securely stored by the system with other secrets. The password may be used by the system to perform various operations (e.g. configuring the machine, . . . ). When a secret is requested by a user to access a resource, a secret is provided to the user. Once the secret has been utilized by the user, the secret is reset and replaced with a newly generated secret. All/portion of the secrets may also be automatically regenerated. For example, when a breach occurs and/or is suspected, each of the secrets may be replaced with newly generated secrets and securely stored. Auditing and reporting may also be provided (e.g. each request/access to a secret is logged).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Nunn, Michael Friedman, Andrey Lukyanov, Rajmohan Rajagopalan, Rage Hawley, Shane Brady, Bryan Atwood