ROBERT D BURNS
Medical Practice in Hollywood, FL

6931526, Aug 16, 2005

Dec 31, 1998

09/223765

Hamid Bacha - Great Falls VA, US
Robert Burns - Pembroke Pines FL, US
Robert B. Carroll - Mt. Kisco NY, US
Mark Fisk - North Potomac MD, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

H04L007/00

713151, 713152, 713156, 713193, 713155, 705 76

A vault controller manages resources in a secure environment or vault dedicated to an authorized user(s) for conducting electronic business in a distributed information system. The controller includes a web server and a supervisor in a shared object library, which runs as part of an HTTP daemon. The supervisor runs as a multi-threaded process with state and data tables and a vault daemon to support launching secure processes mapped to users through digital certificates. The vault daemon generates a password for a user request based on the user ID. The vault daemon launches a vault process (VP) running in a vault mapped to the user ID. After launching, the VP returns a message to the supervisor including a token identifying the thread. The supervisor sends the user request through a socket to the secure VP mapped to the user ID. The VP receives the request and launches a VP thread to handle the request.

6988195, Jan 17, 2006

Aug 13, 2003

10/639944

Hamid Bacha - Great Falls VA, US
Robert Burns - Pembroke Pines FL, US
Robert B. Carroll - Mt. Kisco NY, US
Mark Fisk - North Potomac MD, US

International Business Machines Corp. - Armonk NY

H04L 9/00, G06F 11/30

713151, 713169, 713171, 713193, 713201, 705 75, 705 76

A vault controller manages resources in a secure environment or vault dedicated to an authorized user(s) for conducting electronic business in a distributed information system, e. g. , the Internet. The controller includes a web server and a supervisor in a shared object library which runs as part of an HTTP daemon. The supervisor runs as a multi-threaded process and includes multiple service supervisor (SS) threads; a communication supervisor (CS) thread; a request supervisor (RS) thread; state and data tables and a vault daemon to support launching secure processes mapped to users through digital certificates included in user requests to the controller.

6715073, Mar 30, 2004

Dec 31, 1998

09/223766

Larry An - Great Falls VA
Hamid Bacha - Great Falls VA
Robert Briggs - Burke VA
Robert Burns - Pembroke Pines FL
Robert B. Carroll - Mt. Kisco NY
Mark Fisk - North Potomac MD
Hatem Ghafir - Olney MD
Raymond Good - Ashburn VA
Srinivasa Kasturi - Annadale VA
Ku Lee - Germantown MD
Drew Kittel - Washington DC
Lolo Lasida - Alexandria VA
Hiroshi Maruyama - Tokyo, JP
Amit Pamecha - Fairfax VA
Paresh Patel - Leicester, GB
Dieter Poetzschke - North Potomac MD
Roger Reider - Silver Spring MD
Khalid Asad - Frederick MD

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

H04L 900

713156, 713151, 713152, 713155, 713193, 713201, 380 30

A secure-end-to-end communication system for electronic business system and method of operation, e. g. , the Internet, includes a web server—vault controller having personal storage vaults in the controller for users, registration and certification authorities. Each personal vault runs programs on the controller under a unique UNIX user ID. Data storage is provided by the controller wherein the storage is owned by the same user ID assigned to the vault. A registration authority running as a software application in the controller processes requests to issue, renew and revoke digital certificates issued by a certification authority using two pairs of public-private keys. The registration authority interacts with the vault controller to decide whether an applicant qualifies to receive a digital certificate. The certification authority running as software application in the controller includes a certificate management system that provides services such as issuing, revoking, suspending, resuming, and renewing a users right to digital certificates.