Patents by Inventor Varadharajan Kannan

Varadharajan Kannan 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).

  • Patent number: 11652827
    Abstract: Various approaches are disclosed to virtualizing intrusion detection and prevention. Disclosed approaches provide for an embedded system having a hypervisor that provides a virtualized environment supporting any number of guest OSes. The virtualized environment may include a security engine on an internal communication channel between the guest OS and a virtualized hardware interface (e.g., an Ethernet or CAN interface) to analyze network traffic to protect the guest OS from other guest OSes or other network components, and to protect those network components from the guest OS. The security engine may be on a different partition than the guest OS and the virtualized hardware interface providing the components with isolated execution environments that protect against malicious code execution. Each guest OS may have its own security engine customized for the guest OS to account for what is typical or expected traffic for the guest OS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Overby, Rick Dingle, Nicola Di Miscio, Varadharajan Kannan, Yong Zhang, Francesco Saracino
  • Patent number: 10936293
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for constructing, by a computing device, a dependency graph using dependency links provided between layers of an image. Versions of the image may be inspected. Update frequencies of the layers of the image may be identified. A rank to the layers of the image may be assigned based upon, at least in part, the update frequencies of the layers of the image. A new layer arrangement for the image may be generated by ordering the new layer arrangement between a lowest ranked layer and a highest ranked layer based upon, at least in part, the dependency graph. A new standardized deployment image may be built using the image layers reordered in the new layer arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kishore Kumar Varadharajan Kannan
  • Publication number: 20200142680
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for constructing, by a computing device, a dependency graph using dependency links provided between layers of an image. Versions of the image may be inspected. Update frequencies of the layers of the image may be identified. A rank to the layers of the image may be assigned based upon, at least in part, the update frequencies of the layers of the image. A new layer arrangement for the image may be generated by ordering the new layer arrangement between a lowest ranked layer and a highest ranked layer based upon, at least in part, the dependency graph. A new standardized deployment image may be built using the image layers reordered in the new layer arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventor: KISHORE KUMAR VARADHARAJAN KANNAN
  • Patent number: 10528337
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for constructing, by a computing device, a dependency graph using dependency links provided between layers of an image. Versions of the image may be inspected. Update frequencies of the layers of the image may be identified. A rank to the layers of the image may be assigned based upon, at least in part, the update frequencies of the layers of the image. A new layer arrangement for the image may be generated by ordering the new layer arrangement between a lowest ranked layer and a highest ranked layer based upon, at least in part, the dependency graph. A new standardized deployment image may be built using the image layers reordered in the new layer arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Kishore Kumar Varadharajan Kannan
  • Publication number: 20190379683
    Abstract: Various approaches are disclosed to virtualizing intrusion detection and prevention. Disclosed approaches provide for an embedded system having a hypervisor that provides a virtualized environment supporting any number of guest OSes. The virtualized environment may include a security engine on an internal communication channel between the guest OS and a virtualized hardware interface (e.g., an Ethernet or CAN interface) to analyze network traffic to protect the guest OS from other guest OSes or other network components, and to protect those network components from the guest OS. The security engine may be on a different partition than the guest OS and the virtualized hardware interface providing the components with isolated execution environments that protect against malicious code execution. Each guest OS may have its own security engine customized for the guest OS to account for what is typical or expected traffic for the guest OS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: MARK OVERBY, Rick Dingle, Nicola Di Miscio, Varadharajan Kannan, Yong Zhang, Francesco Saracino
  • Publication number: 20190379682
    Abstract: Various approaches are disclosed for protecting vehicle buses from cyber-attacks. Disclosed approaches provide for an embedded system having a hypervisor that provides a virtualized environment supporting any number of guest OSes. The virtualized environment may include a security engine on an internal communication channel between the guest OS and an external vehicle bus of a vehicle to analyze network traffic to protect the guest OS from other guest OSes or other network components, and to protect those network components from the guest OS. Each guest OS may have its own security engine customized for the guest OS to account for what is typical or expected traffic for the guest OS (e.g., using machine learning, anomaly detection, etc.).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Mark Overby, Rick Dingle, Nicola Di Miscio, Varadharajan Kannan, Yong Zhang, Francesco Saracino