Patents by Inventor Sandy Hickoff

Sandy Hickoff 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: 8825839
    Abstract: A server hosting system provides managed servers for tenants of the server hosting system. Managed servers for different tenants can have the same IP addresses and fully-qualified domain names (FQDNs). Furthermore, the server hosting system provides routers for the tenants. The router for a tenant can receive a Domain Name System (DNS) update message. The DNS update message is a request for a DNS server to associate a tenant-side FQDN with a tenant-side IP address. This tenant-side IP address can concurrently be an IP address of a managed server of another tenant. In response to receiving the DNS update request, the router sends a DNS data message to a management system for the server hosting system. The DNS data message indicates the IP address, the tenant-side FQDN, and an IP address only associated with the given tenant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Unisys Corporation
    Inventors: Mark S. Brandt, Sandy Hickoff, Linh Ly, Kathryn A. McDonald, Patricia A. Nichols, James E. Trevdte
  • Publication number: 20120131156
    Abstract: A server hosting system provides managed servers for tenants. Managed servers for different tenants can have the same IP addresses and fully-qualified domain names (FQDNs). A management system of the server hosting system receives a DNS data message from a tenant router in the server hosting system. The DNS data message specifies an IP address of one of the managed servers, a tenant-side FQDN for the managed server, and an IP address of the tenant router. The managed server and the tenant router are associated with a given tenant. The IP address is also an IP address of another one of the managed servers. In response, the management system obtains a management-side IP address and a management-side FQDN for the managed server. The management system then updates a Domain Name System (DNS) record to associate the management-side FQDN with the management-side IP address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventors: Mark S. Brandt, Sandy Hickoff, Linh Ly, Kathryn A. McDonald, Patricia A. Nichols, James E. Treydte
  • Publication number: 20120131177
    Abstract: A server hosting system provides managed servers for tenants of the server hosting system. Managed servers for different tenants can have the same IP addresses and fully-qualified domain names (FQDNs). Furthermore, the server hosting system provides routers for the tenants. The router for a tenant can receive a Domain Name System (DNS) update message. The DNS update message is a request for a DNS server to associate a tenant-side FQDN with a tenant-side IP address. This tenant-side IP address can concurrently be an IP address of a managed server of another tenant. In response to receiving the DNS update request, the router sends a DNS data message to a management system for the server hosting system. The DNS data message indicates the IP address, the tenant-side FQDN, and an IP address only associated with the given tenant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventors: Mark S. Brandt, Sandy Hickoff, Linh Ly, Kathryn A. McDonald, Patricia A. Nichols, James E. Trevdte
  • Publication number: 20120131162
    Abstract: A server hosting system provides managed servers for tenants. Managed servers for different tenants can have the same IP addresses and fully-qualified domain names. A server manager for the server hosting system detects a deletion event for one of the managed servers. In response to detecting the deletion event, the server manager sends a web services request to a Domain Name Service (DNS) web service having a web API. The web services request requests invocation of a deregister method in the web API. The deregister method removes DNS records that associate a management-side fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for the managed server with a management-side IP address for the managed server. No other managed server in the server hosting system has the management-side IP address. No other managed server in the server hosting system has the management-side FQDN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventors: Mark S. Brandt, Sandy Hickoff, Linh Ly, Kathryn A. McDonald, Patricia A. Nichols, James E. Trevdte