Brian Hamilton Jarvis
Burglar Alarm in Orem, UT

5870561, Feb 9, 1999

Mar 15, 1996

8/619814

Brian Lee Jarvis - Orem UT
Jeffrey T. Hawkins - Mapleton UT

Novell, Inc. - Orem UT

G06F 1300, G06F 1516, G06F 300

39520068

A policy-driven network traffic manager recommends to individual application programs that generate network traffic whether, and optionally under what conditions, they should generate network traffic. The network traffic manager has an interface, through which the application programs, prior to generating network traffic, call the network traffic manager and describe the traffic the application programs propose to generate. A policy repository stores a set of policies, which the network traffic manager uses to ascertain whether the application programs should generate the proposed network traffic. The policies can include considerations such as time, link cost, latency, congestion and availability. The network traffic manager then sends the recommendations to the application programs.

6424976, Jul 23, 2002

Mar 23, 2000

09/533442

Brian Jarvis - Orem UT
Layne Izatt - Orem UT
Mark Hinckley - Lincoln UT

Novell, Inc. - Provo UT

G06F 1730

707201

System and method for implementing a forward compatibility syntax in a directory services environment is described. In one embodiment, data comprising an attribute according to a new syntax that is supported by newer servers, but not by older servers, is separated into data with respect to which referential integrity is not a concern (hereinafter “blob data”) and data with respect to which referential integrity is a concern (hereinafter Distinguished Names (“DNs”)). The two types of data are then combined according to a forward compatibility (“FC”) syntax that is supported by both older and newer servers. Only certain, newer, servers understand and convert between the FC syntax and the actual new syntax; older servers are capable of supporting the FC syntax without needing to understand it.

6308181, Oct 23, 2001

Dec 19, 1998

9/216254

Brian L Jarvis - Orem UT

Novell, Inc. - Provo UT

G06F 1730

707102

Methods, signals, devices, and systems are provided for controlling access to objects and their attributes in a database. The database may be hierarchical, or it may have positional relationships based on a graph structure. In a hierarchical database possible positional relationships include "child", "parent", "grandchild", and so on. A trustee field in an access control property of a target object is furnished with the positional relationship. A positional relationship is evaluated when an access request is made, and the binding of trustee object identifiers with particular targets through access control properties is thereby delayed until such binding is necessary to determine if the access request should be granted. The delayed binding may be combined with inheritance, with conventional access control lists, and with other familiar tools and techniques to enhance access control in the database of objects.

5913025, Jun 15, 1999

Nov 14, 1996

8/748889

DeeAnne Barker Higley - Provo UT
Bruce Warner Thorne - Salem UT
Brian Lee Jarvis - Orem UT

Novell, Inc. - Orem UT

G06F 1100

39518701

A method for a source to obtain the rights of a target object is disclosed. The source first obtains the rights of a source object, which rights include authorization to access a target object and to modify authentication data of the target object. Next, the source object generates new authentication data. After accessing the target object using the rights of the source object, the source modifies the authentication data of the target object to include the new authentication data. Using the new authentication data, the source obtains the rights of the target object, whereby the source becomes a proxy for the target object. As a proxy, the source uses the rights of the target object. Alternative processes for proxy authentication, as well as apparatus for proxy authentication, are also disclosed.

6047289, Apr 4, 2000

Nov 7, 1997

8/965803

Bruce Warner Thorne - Salem UT
Brian Lee Jarvis - Orem UT

Novell, Inc. - Orem UT

G06F 1730

707 10

A computer system comprises a management service having a plurality of objects. Each of the objects has at least one associated attribute with associated values. A master object in the management service includes a source attribute with associated data. One or more slave objects in the management service correspond to the master object and are distinct from the master object. Each of these slave objects has a destination attribute which corresponds to the source attribute of the master object. A propagation agent is capable of accessing the slave objects and transmitting the data associated with the source attribute to the destination attributes of the slave objects.