Patents by Inventor William R. Long, III

William R. Long, III 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).

  • Creating rules for labeled servers in a distributed network management system
    Patent number: 10608945
    Abstract: A system enforces administrative domain wide policies specified using labels that describe characteristics of servers or services. A label comprises a label value describing a characteristic of one or more computing devices for a label dimension. The system infers label values for devices using features describing characteristics of the computing devices, for example, hardware characteristics, software characteristics, or connectivity characteristics. The system obtains communication information indicating the destination, source, volume, and duration of network traffic between computing devices. The system identifies providers of services and consumers of services based on the communication information. The system generates rules for regulating communications between computing devices and enforces the rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Illumio, Inc.
    Inventors: William R. Long, III, Michael J. Carlton, Mukesh Gupta, Paul J. Kirner
  • CREATING RULES FOR LABELED SERVERS IN A DISTRIBUTED NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20170250915
    Abstract: A system enforces administrative domain wide policies specified using labels that describe characteristics of servers or services. A label comprises a label value describing a characteristic of one or more computing devices for a label dimension. The system infers label values for devices using features describing characteristics of the computing devices, for example, hardware characteristics, software characteristics, or connectivity characteristics. The system obtains communication information indicating the destination, source, volume, and duration of network traffic between computing devices. The system identifies providers of services and consumers of services based on the communication information. The system generates rules for regulating communications between computing devices and enforces the rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: William R. Long, III, Michael J. Carlton, Mukesh Gupta, Paul J. Kirner