Patents by Inventor William FEHRING

William FEHRING 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).

  • Publication number: 20160261564
    Abstract: A virtual private access method implemented by a cloud system, includes receiving a request to access resources from a user device, wherein the resources are located in one of a public cloud and an enterprise network and the user device is remote therefrom on the Internet; forwarding the request to a central authority for a policy look up and for a determination of connection information to make an associated secure connection through the cloud system to the resources; receiving the connection information from the central authority responsive to an authorized policy look up; and creating secure tunnels between the user device and the resources based on the connection information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: Zscaler, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick FOXHOVEN, John A. CHANAK, William FEHRING, Denzil WESSELS, Purvi DESAI, Manoj APTE, Sudhindra P. HERLE
  • Publication number: 20160036857
    Abstract: A cloud-based method, system, and transparent proxy for user-level policy, reporting, and authentication over Domain Name System (DNS) include maintaining a local user Internet Protocol (IP) database identifying users in an enterprise; and acting as a transparent proxy for all DNS requests from the users performing the steps of: for a user already identified in the local user IP database, forwarding a DNS request to a cloud-based system with an identifier from the local user IP database of the user associated with the DNS request; and for the user not identified in the local user IP database, performing a series of redirects and hand offs in the cloud-based system to identify the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Applicant: ZSCALER, INC.
    Inventors: Patrick FOXHOVEN, John CHANAK, William FEHRING