Patents by Inventor Stephen R Carter

Stephen R Carter 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).

  • TECHNIQUES FOR EVALUATING AND MANAGING CLOUD NETWORKS
    Publication number: 20140143602
    Abstract: Techniques for evaluating and managing cloud networks are provided. Geographical locations for cloud processing environments are combined with attributes and usage metrics to form associations between each cloud processing environment's geographical location and that cloud's corresponding attributes and usage metrics. A map is organized for the associations to form a cloud network. The map is dynamically updated, supplied to services, and rendered for evaluation of the cloud network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Novell, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen R. Carter, Scott Alan Isaacson
  • Key distribution
    Patent number: 8731200
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for trusted key distribution. A key distribution or an identity service acts as an intermediary between participants to a secure network. The service provisions and manages the distribution of keys. The keys are used for encrypting communications occurring within the secure network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Novell, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen R. Carter, Carolyn B. McClain
  • MECHANISMS TO PERSIST HIERARCHICAL OBJECT RELATIONS
    Publication number: 20140130005
    Abstract: Mechanisms to persist object relations are provided. A project is defined as a series of interrelated objects having dependencies and relationships with one another. The dependencies and relationships are maintained via a storage organization for files that define the objects within a project storage environment for the project. Thus, the dependencies and relationships are not maintained via hardcoded instructions or references that are included within the files.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Novell, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Edward Lowry, Rajesh Vasudevan, Brent Thurgood, Ryan Cox, Zack Grossbart, William Street, Volker Gunnar Scheuber-Heinz, Stephen R. Carter
  • Techniques for privileged network routing
    Patent number: 8693327
    Abstract: Techniques for privileged network routing are provided. As traffic is received at a gateway of a network backbone provider environment it is interrogated for predefined criteria. If the traffic satisfies the predefined criteria, then the information is routed within the network backbone provider environment to use a set of reserved and restricted resources to provide premium service for the traffic being routed through the network backbone provider environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Novell, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen R Carter, Dipto Chakravarty
  • Techniques for managing a network delivery path of content via a key
    Patent number: 8688856
    Abstract: Techniques for distributing content over a network via keys are provided. A key is associated with a particular destination or with a particular piece of content. A path management service derives and selectively communicates portions of a network path for moving the content to a destination on the basis of a value for a key. Any intermediate processing resource receives a next location within the path for forwarding the content from the path management service in response to presenting the key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Novell, Inc.
    Inventors: Carolyn B. McClain, Stephen R. Carter
  • Techniques for temporarily holding project stages
    Patent number: 8682706
    Abstract: Techniques for temporarily holding project stages are provided. Resources and configuration information associated with a source stage of project's lifecycle are imaged in a self-contained project package. The package is published to an intermediate holding area. The package is pulled to and initiated within a target stage of the project's lifecycle when release and access criteria are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michel Shane Simpson, Volker Gunnar Scheuber-Heinz, Lee Edward Lowry, Stephen R. Carter
  • Techniques for help desk management
    Patent number: 8655713
    Abstract: Techniques for help desk management are provided. A user's experience with a resource is captured via a rating. The rating is recorded along with other metrics associated with a processing environment of the user and proactive action taken in response to configuration or performance problems with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Novell, Inc.
    Inventors: Tammy Anita Green, Stephen R Carter, Scott Alan Isaacson, Eric Anderson
  • Techniques for schema production and transformation
    Patent number: 8645434
    Abstract: Techniques for schema production and transformation are presented. Enterprise data from a plurality of data sources is analyzed to produce patterns to types of enterprise data. Merging rules group patterns together with entries across multiple schemas. Each schema associated with one of the data sources. A single entry is then produced within a single generic schema for each group of patterns. The generic schema can then be used to suggest changes to enterprise data policy and to make the enterprise data interoperable across the enterprise in an automated fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen R Carter, Nathan Blaine Jensen, Volker Gunnar Scheuber-Heinz, Charles Matthew Morgan
  • Techniques for evaluating and managing cloud networks
    Patent number: 8639791
    Abstract: Techniques for evaluating and managing cloud networks are provided. Geographical locations for cloud processing environments are combined with attributes and usage metrics to form associations between each cloud processing environment's geographical location and that cloud's corresponding attributes and usage metrics. A map is organized for the associations to form a cloud network. The map is dynamically updated, supplied to services, and rendered for evaluation of the cloud network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Novell, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen R Carter, Scott Alan Isaacson
  • Managing digital identity information
    Patent number: 8631038
    Abstract: A basic architecture for managing digital identity information in a network such as the World Wide Web is provided. A user of the architecture can organize his or her information into one or more profiles which reflect the nature of different relationships between the user and other entities, and grant or deny each entity access to a given profile. Various enhancements which may be provided through the architecture are also described, including tools for filtering email, controlling access to user web pages, locating other users and making one's own location known, browsing or mailing anonymously, filling in web forms automatically with information already provided once by hand, logging in automatically, securely logging in to multiple sites with a single password and doing so from any machine on the network, and other enhancements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Andrew Mellmer, Russell T. Young, Arn D. Perkins, John M. Robertson, Jeffrey Neil Sabin, Michael C. McDonald, Douglas Phillips, Robert Michael Sheridan, Nadeem Ahmad Nazeer, DeeAnne Barker Higley, Stephen R. Carter, Douglas G. Earl, Kelly E. Sonderegger, Daniel T. Ferguson, Farrell Lynn Brough
  • Mechanisms to persist hierarchical object relations
    Patent number: 8631032
    Abstract: Mechanisms to persist object relations are provided. A project is defined as a series of interrelated objects having dependencies and relationships with one another. The dependencies and relationships are maintained via a storage organization for files that define the objects within a project storage environment for the project. Thus, the dependencies and relationships are not maintained via hardcoded instructions or references that are included within the files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Novell, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Edward Lowry, Rajesh Vasudevan, Brent Thurgood, Ryan Cox, Zack Grossbart, William Street, Volker Gunnar Scheuber-Heinz, Stephen R Carter
  • Techniques for instantiating and configuring projects
    Patent number: 8627285
    Abstract: Techniques for project management instantiation and configuration are provided. A master project includes policy directives that drive the dynamic instantiation and configuration of resources for a project. The resources are instantiated and configured on demand and when resources are actually requested, in response to the policy directives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Novell, Inc.
    Inventors: Michel Shane Simpson, Volker Gunnar Scheuber-Heinz, Lee Edward Lowry, Stephen R Carter
  • System and method for event-based rendering of visual effects
    Patent number: 8601371
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for rendering visual effects, or other types of effects, in response to an occurrence of one or more events. The visual effects may be rendered on a user desktop in order to alert or otherwise notify a user that the one or more events have occurred. The events may reflect incoming messages (e.g., e-mails, instant messages, etc.), application and/or system problems, downloads, appointments, alarms, updates, network status, or other software and/or hardware related events. The visual effects may be rendered on the desktop to subtly notify the user when an event of interest occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anna Dirks, David Reveman, Stephen R. Carter, Scott Isaacson
  • Mechanisms to share attributes between objects
    Patent number: 8589358
    Abstract: Mechanisms for sharing attributes between objects are provided. An object includes a special designation for at least one component, which is identified as a shared attribute. Data associated with the shared attribute is populated and managed from a central location within a processing environment. Multiple instances of a same object or of entirely different objects can reference, declare, and use the data from the central location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Lee Edward Lowry, Brent Thurgood, Rajesh Vasudevan, Stephen R Carter
  • Techniques for evaluating and managing cloud networks via political and natural events
    Patent number: 8554885
    Abstract: Techniques for evaluating and managing cloud networks via political and natural events are provided. Geographical locations for cloud processing environments are combined with attributes and usage metrics to form associations between each cloud processing environment's geographical location and that cloud's corresponding attributes and usage metrics. Some associations and attributes relate to political and natural events. The political and natural events are used to update a proper selection of a particular cloud processing environment to handle targeted services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Novell, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Alan Isaacson, Stephen R Carter
  • TECHNIQUES FOR IDENTITY AND POLICY BASED ROUTING
    Publication number: 20130263213
    Abstract: Techniques for identity and policy based routing are presented. A resource is initiated on a device with a resource identity and role assignments along with policies are obtained for the resource. A customized network is created for the resource using a device address for the device, the resource identity, the role assignments, and the policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: Novell, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Ray Brown, Jason Allen Sabin, Nathaniel Brent Kranendonk, Kal A. Larsen, Lloyd Leon Burch, Stephen R. Carter
  • Methods, systems, and data structures for federating electronic calendars
    Patent number: 8538992
    Abstract: The methods, systems, and data structures are taught for federating disparate calendaring systems into composite calendaring systems and composite calendars. First and second calendaring systems are bridged to a composite calendaring system using a bridging communication. The composite calendaring system tracks and presents selective information within a composite calendar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Novell, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel C. Lawyer, Jeffrey Todd Hawkins, Scott Alan Isaacson, Matthew Richard French, James D. Nyland, Stephen R Carter
  • Key distribution
    Patent number: 8538026
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for trusted key distribution. A key distribution or an identity service acts as an intermediary between participants to a secure network. The service provisions and manages the distribution of keys. The keys are used for encrypting communications occurring within the secure network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Novell, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen R. Carter, Carolyn B. McClain
  • META-DIRECTORY CONTROL AND EVALUATION OF EVENTS
    Publication number: 20130232127
    Abstract: Techniques for meta-directory control and evaluation of events are provided. Disparate events from heterogeneous processing environments are collected as the events are produced by resources within the processing environments. The events are filtered and organized into taxonomies. Next the filtered and organized events are assigned to nodes of a Meta directory, each node defining a relationship between two or more of the resources and policy is applied. Finally, additional policy is evaluated in view of the events and their node assignments with other events, and one or more automated actions are then taken.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: Novell, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen R Carter, Scott Alan Isaacson
  • TECHNIQUES FOR GENERICALLY ACCESSING DATA
    Publication number: 20130232266
    Abstract: Techniques for generic data access are provided. A middle-tier server agent uses data providers that can communicate with backend resources. A request received in a first format is used to identify a specific data provider by the middle-tier server agent; the data provider uses the first format to communicate with a specific backend resource in a second format. Results from the specific backend resource are returned from the data provider in the first format and passed to a client that initially made the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: Novell, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Edward Lowry, Brent Thurgood, Stephen R. Carter