Patents by Inventor Thom Dixon

Thom Dixon 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).

  • System and method for managing secure shell protocol access in cloud infrastructure environments
    Patent number: 12726365
    Abstract: Techniques for creating, managing, and using SSH certificates with one or more target-specific principals are disclosed. A certificate authority receives a certificate signing request that includes both a user identifier and a resource identifier. The user identifier identifies a user, and the resource identifier represents one or more target hosts. The certificate authority forms a target-specific principal for use in creating the certificate. The target-specific principal indicates both the user and the resource identifier representing the resource(s) for which access is requested. The resource identifier may represent a host class associated with more than one host. Once the certificate authority verifies that the user is entitled to access the requested resource(s), it generates the certificate, signs it, and returns it to the requesting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremiah David Small, Alexander Chebaturkin, Yavor Tashev, Siddharth Satish Shenoy, Thom Dixon, Xin Xu
  • System And Method For Managing Secure Shell Protocol Access In Cloud Infrastructure Environments
    Publication number: 20250337599
    Abstract: Techniques for creating, managing, and using SSH certificates with one or more target-specific principals are disclosed. A certificate authority receives a certificate signing request that includes both a user identifier and a resource identifier. The user identifier identifies a user, and the resource identifier represents one or more target hosts. The certificate authority forms a target-specific principal for use in creating the certificate. The target-specific principal indicates both the user and the resource identifier representing the resource(s) for which access is requested. The resource identifier may represent a host class associated with more than one host. Once the certificate authority verifies that the user is entitled to access the requested resource(s), it generates the certificate, signs it, and returns it to the requesting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2024
    Publication date: October 30, 2025
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremiah David Small, Alexander Chebaturkin, Yavor Tashev, Siddharth Satish Shenoy, Thom Dixon, Xin Xu