Patents by Inventor Tyler Pennington

Tyler Pennington 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).

  • Highly available and reliable secret distribution infrastructure
    Patent number: 11018860
    Abstract: The techniques discussed herein relate to providing a highly available and reliable secret distribution infrastructure. In an implementation, a key master service (KMS) system is disclosed. The KMS system includes one or more computer readable storage media having program instructions stored thereon which, when executed by one or more processing systems, direct the one or more processing systems to identify a hydration event and, responsive to the hydration event, determine if other KMS systems are running in a secret distribution infrastructure. The program instructions, when executed by one or more processing systems, further direct the KMS system to hydrate the KMS system with secret information obtained from the one or more of the other KMS systems when the other KMS systems are running in the secret distribution infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andy Ness, Catherine Amy McDonald, Jeffrey E. Steinbok, Prajakta Sudhir Samant, Tyler Pennington, Nicola Alfeo
  • HIGHLY AVAILABLE AND RELIABLE SECRET DISTRIBUTION INFRASTRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20180123791
    Abstract: The techniques discussed herein relate to providing a highly available and reliable secret distribution infrastructure. In an implementation, a key master service (KMS) system is disclosed. The KMS system includes one or more computer readable storage media having program instructions stored thereon which, when executed by one or more processing systems, direct the one or more processing systems to identify a hydration event and, responsive to the hydration event, determine if other KMS systems are running in a secret distribution infrastructure. The program instructions, when executed by one or more processing systems, further direct the KMS system to hydrate the KMS system with secret information obtained from the one or more of the other KMS systems when the other KMS systems are running in the secret distribution infrastructure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Andy Ness, Catherine Amy McDonald, Jeffrey E. Steinbok, Prajakta Sudhir Samant, Tyler Pennington, Nick Alfeo