Patents by Inventor Viswanathan RAMACHANDRAN

Viswanathan RAMACHANDRAN 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).

  • Access control policy management in a computing environment
    Patent number: 11075952
    Abstract: In an example, a method of managing access to resources managed by heterogeneous resource servers having different policy document formats in a cloud services environment includes obtaining, at an identity and access management (IAM) service, a policy document describing privileges of an end user with respect to accessing at least one resource of the resources managed by a resource server of the heterogeneous resource servers; sending the policy document from the IAM service to an resource server endpoint designated by the resource server for validation; storing, by the IAM service, the policy document in a datastore in response to a determination by the resource server endpoint that the policy document is valid; and generating, by the IAM service, an indication that the policy document is invalid in response to a determination by the resource server endpoint that the policy document is invalid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Viswanathan Ramachandran, Jonathan Cook
  • ACCESS CONTROL POLICY MANAGEMENT IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20180352002
    Abstract: In an example, a method of managing access to resources managed by heterogeneous resource servers having different policy document formats in a cloud services environment includes obtaining, at an identity and access management (IAM) service, a policy document describing privileges of an end user with respect to accessing at least one resource of the resources managed by a resource server of the heterogeneous resource servers; sending the policy document from the IAM service to an resource server endpoint designated by the resource server for validation; storing, by the IAM service, the policy document in a datastore in response to a determination by the resource server endpoint that the policy document is valid; and generating, by the IAM service, an indication that the policy document is invalid in response to a determination by the resource server endpoint that the policy document is invalid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Viswanathan RAMACHANDRAN, Jonathan COOK
  • Access control policy management in a cloud services environment
    Patent number: 10038722
    Abstract: In an example, a method of managing access to resources managed by heterogeneous resource servers having different policy document formats in a cloud services environment includes obtaining, at an identity and access management (IAM) service, a policy document describing privileges of an end user with respect to accessing at least one resource of the resources managed by a resource server of the heterogeneous resource servers; sending the policy document from the IAM service to an resource server endpoint designated by the resource server for validation; storing, by the IAM service, the policy document in a datastore in response to a determination by the resource server endpoint that the policy document is valid; and generating, by the IAM service, an indication that the policy document is invalid in response to a determination by the resource server endpoint that the policy document is invalid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Viswanathan Ramachandran, Jonathan Cook
  • ACCESS CONTROL POLICY MANAGEMENT IN A CLOUD SERVICES ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20170070504
    Abstract: In an example, a method of managing access to resources managed by heterogeneous resource servers having different policy document formats in a cloud services environment includes obtaining, at an identity and access management (IAM) service, a policy document describing privileges of an end user with respect to accessing at least one resource of the resources managed by a resource server of the heterogeneous resource servers; sending the policy document from the IAM service to an resource server endpoint designated by the resource server for validation; storing, by the IAM service, the policy document in a datastore in response to a determination by the resource server endpoint that the policy document is valid; and generating, by the IAM service, an indication that the policy document is invalid in response to a determination by the resource server endpoint that the policy document is invalid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Viswanathan RAMACHANDRAN, Jonathan COOK