Patents by Inventor Simon Paul Brooks

Simon Paul Brooks 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).

  • Secure inter-application communication with unmanaged applications using certificate enrollment
    Patent number: 12081537
    Abstract: Disclosed are various approaches for secure inter-application communication with unmanaged applications using certificate enrollment. A certificate signing request can be received from an unmanaged application via an inter-application communication method supported by an operating system of a computing device, and an identity of the unmanaged application can be verified. The certificate signing request can be provided to a certifying authority, and a certificate can be received from the certifying authority. The certificate can be provided to the unmanaged application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: VMware LLC
    Inventors: Simon Paul Brooks, Stephen Louis Turner, Daniel Ochoa
  • Attestation of application identity for inter-app communications
    Patent number: 11977620
    Abstract: Examples for validating the identify of an application in an inter-app communication protocol are described. An attestation payload is obtained from a third party attestation service that is executed remotely from a device on which the application is running. The attestation payload can be validated by another application on the device in order to validate the identity of the application providing the attestation payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: VMware LLC
    Inventors: Simon Paul Brooks, Anuj Panwar, Siavash James Joorabchian Hawkins
  • SECURE INTER-APPLICATION COMMUNICATION WITH UNMANAGED APPLICATIONS USING CERTIFICATE ENROLLMENT
    Publication number: 20230239285
    Abstract: Disclosed are various approaches for secure inter-application communication with unmanaged applications using certificate enrollment. A certificate signing request can be received from an unmanaged application via an inter-application communication method supported by an operating system of a computing device, and an identity of the unmanaged application can be verified. The certificate signing request can be provided to a certifying authority, and a certificate can be received from the certifying authority. The certificate can be provided to the unmanaged application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Simon Paul Brooks, Stephen Louis Turner, Daniel Ochoa
  • ATTESTATION OF APPLICATION IDENTITY FOR INTER-APP COMMUNICATIONS
    Publication number: 20230229752
    Abstract: Examples for validating the identify of an application in an inter-app communication protocol are described. An attestation payload is obtained from a third party attestation service that is executed remotely from a device on which the application is running. The attestation payload can be validated by another application on the device in order to validate the identity of the application providing the attestation payload.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Simon Paul Brooks, Anuj Panwar, Siavash James Joorabchian Hawkins