Patents by Inventor Randolf Michael Forlenza

Randolf Michael Forlenza 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).

  • Supporting compliance in a cloud environment
    Patent number: 9110976
    Abstract: Gathering auditable data concerning actions in a cloud computing environment is automated by determining that one or more auditable data items are available associated with a requester and with at least one application program; responsive to determining that data items are available, transmitting a list of the available auditable data items to a requesting cloud client computer; subsequent to transmitting the list, receiving a data request from the cloud client computer for one or more particular auditable data items from the list; preparing the requested particular auditable data items for transmission according to a predetermined format; and transmitting the prepared requested particular auditable data items to the cloud client computer. Optionally, in some embodiments, the requesting cloud client computer may negotiate a data exchange format with the cloud service provider for receipt of the requested auditable information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anne Louise Bolgert, Raghuraman Kalyanaraman, Randolf Michael Forlenza, Richard Jay Cohen
  • Supporting Compliance in a Cloud Environment
    Publication number: 20120179746
    Abstract: Gathering auditable data concerning actions in a cloud computing environment is automated by determining that one or more auditable data items are available associated with a requester and with at least one application program; responsive to determining that data items are available, transmitting a list of the available auditable data items to a requesting cloud client computer; subsequent to transmitting the list, receiving a data request from the cloud client computer for one or more particular auditable data items from the list; preparing the requested particular auditable data items for transmission according to a predetermined format; and transmitting the prepared requested particular auditable data items to the cloud client computer. Optionally, in some embodiments, the requesting cloud client computer may negotiate a data exchange format with the cloud service provider for receipt of the requested auditable information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anne Louise Bolgert, Richard Jay Cohen, Randolf Michael Forlenza, Raghuraman Kalyanaraman