Patents by Inventor Xiaohui Pei

Xiaohui Pei 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).

  • Authentication and authorization for cloud file system
    Patent number: 11949681
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for improving user authentication and access control by a network file system service in a multi-tenant public cloud environment by receiving a request for a connection to a file system from a file system client (client), sending an identification request for identification authentication of the client to a control system, receiving a response from the control system, establishing the connection to the file system upon determining that the connection to the file system is allowed based on cloud tenant information associated with the client, receiving an attempt to access the file system from the client by a sub-user, authenticating the sub-user based on the cloud tenant information, issuing a security token including a globally unique sub-user identifier of the sub-user, and using the security token to determine access rights of the sub-user to the file system for a subsequent request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Qingda Lu, Junpu Chen, Qinghua Ye, Lei Wang, Zhiyong Lin, Liping Bao, Jiesheng Wu, Li Xu, Xiaohui Pei, Feng Zhang, Leilei Tian
  • AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION FOR CLOUD FILE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20210377273
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for improving user authentication and access control by a network file system service in a multi-tenant public cloud environment by receiving a request for a connection to a file system from a file system client (client), sending an identification request for identification authentication of the client to a control system, receiving a response from the control system, establishing the connection to the file system upon determining that the connection to the file system is allowed based on cloud tenant information associated with the client, receiving an attempt to access the file system from the client by a sub-user, authenticating the sub-user based on the cloud tenant information, issuing a security token including a globally unique sub-user identifier of the sub-user, and using the security token to determine access rights of the sub-user to the file system for a subsequent request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Qingda Lu, Junpu Chen, Qinghua Ye, Lei Wang, Zhiyong Lin, Liping Bao, Jiesheng Wu, Li Xu, Xiaohui Pei, Feng Zhang, Leilei Tian