Patents by Inventor Stephen McQuaid

Stephen McQuaid 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).

  • Publication number: 20230025159
    Abstract: Examples include a system and computer-implemented method to receive a notification from an application programming interface (API) of creation of a just in time (JIT) grant, the JIT grant defining a request for a user to be authorized to access a cluster according to a JIT policy; determine if access to the cluster by the user is authorized according to the JIT policy; grant access to the user to the cluster when access is authorized according to the JIT policy; and send a notification to the API that access by the user to the cluster is granted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Stephen McQuaid
  • Patent number: 11494509
    Abstract: Examples include a system and computer-implemented method to receive a notification from an application programming interface (API) of creation of a just in time (JIT) grant, the JIT grant defining a request for a user to be authorized to access a cluster according to a JIT policy; determine if access to the cluster by the user is authorized according to the JIT policy; grant access to the user to the cluster when access is authorized according to the JIT policy; and send a notification to the API that access by the user to the cluster is granted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Stephen McQuaid
  • Patent number: 11477273
    Abstract: System and methods are described for performing load balancing by continually collecting real-time metrics values from a plurality of endpoints in a cloud computing system, the real-time metrics values representing current performance measurements of processing by the endpoints, and using the collected real-time metrics values by a controller to continually determine a current weight value for each endpoint, the current weight value representing a probability that the endpoint will be selected to process a user request. The method includes receiving the user request for the cloud computing system to perform requested processing; selecting an endpoint of the cloud computing system to process the user request based at least in part on the current weight values of the endpoints; and sending the user request to the selected endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Stephen McQuaid
  • Publication number: 20220086090
    Abstract: System and methods are described for performing load balancing by continually collecting real-time metrics values from a plurality of endpoints in a cloud computing system, the real-time metrics values representing current performance measurements of processing by the endpoints, and using the collected real-time metrics values by a controller to continually determine a current weight value for each endpoint, the current weight value representing a probability that the endpoint will be selected to process a user request. The method includes receiving the user request for the cloud computing system to perform requested processing; selecting an endpoint of the cloud computing system to process the user request based at least in part on the current weight values of the endpoints; and sending the user request to the selected endpoint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventor: Stephen McQuaid
  • Publication number: 20210397729
    Abstract: Examples include a system and computer-implemented method to receive a notification from an application programming interface (API) of creation of a just in time (JIT) grant, the JIT grant defining a request for a user to be authorized to access a cluster according to a JIT policy; determine if access to the cluster by the user is authorized according to the JIT policy; grant access to the user to the cluster when access is authorized according to the JIT policy; and send a notification to the API that access by the user to the cluster is granted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventor: Stephen McQuaid