Patents by Inventor W. Clinton Petty

W. Clinton Petty 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: 7716467
    Abstract: An encryption management system of an enterprise is provided. The system includes an encryption/decryption component operable for enterprise messages to be secured by receiving and encrypting the messages received from enterprise applications. The encryption/decryption component further decrypts messages received from enterprise partners that are encrypted. The system includes an identity management component to manage access to the encryption management system, and a key management component to manage keys used by the encryption/decryption component. The system includes a notification component that initiates sending messages regarding events occurring in the encryption management system through communication with an enterprise messaging system. The system also includes a logging/auditing component to log events occurring in the encryption management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Thomas L. Deffet, W. Clinton Petty, Ali M. Tafreshi
  • Patent number: 6615215
    Abstract: A system and method for a dynamic response to trigger messages and high and low performance event messages supports a graduated dispatching of tasks for processing messages in a queue. As messages are enqueued, queue attributes are altered, including an override of the standard flip-flop behavior of the queue depth high and low event statuses. The alteration of the queue attributes creates a bracketing at the point at which the last event occurred with a pair of “tripwires.” The tripwires are continuously kept on either side of the queue depth at which the last performance event was generated. When the depth changes enough to cause the depth to cross one of the tripwires, the tripwires are moved, and dispatching of tasks for processing messages in the queue may be executed or any other logic deemed useful that is sensitive to queue depths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: CommerceQuest Inc.
    Inventor: W. Clinton Petty