Patents by Inventor Rob Krten

Rob Krten 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).

  • Distributed authentication for service gating
    Patent number: 10798128
    Abstract: A system and method enforce a security policy in a message-based operating system by controlling access to an operating system authenticator. The control occurs in response to an invocation of a microkernel call that initiates a process manager's function in accordance with the access right retained stored in a microkernel. The system and method control access to a server serving a client in the message-based operating system according to a token. The token is issued by the operating system authenticator and establishes a client's access to the services provided by the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Leo F. Forget, Rob Krten
  • DISTRIBUTED AUTHENTICATION FOR SERVICE GATING
    Publication number: 20190028513
    Abstract: A system and method enforce a security policy in a message-based operating system by controlling access to an operating system authenticator. The control occurs in response to an invocation of a microkernel call that initiates a process manager's function in accordance with the access right retained stored in a microkernel. The system and method control access to a server serving a client in the message-based operating system according to a token. The token is issued by the operating system authenticator and establishes a client's access to the services provided by the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Leo F. Forget, Rob Krten