IBM Receives Patent for Advanced Web Service Security Feature

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Researchers at International Business Machines (IBM) have successfully developed an innovative filtering technique to enhance web service security measures. A team of four co-inventors, led by Hyen-Vui Chung, has been granted a patent for their web service message filtering technique, designed to analyze and process security protocols within web service messages. This groundbreaking technology is poised to significantly improve the security and reliability of web service applications, thereby safeguarding against various threats and vulnerabilities.

Key Takeaways:

  • The patent, assigned the number 7,934,252, was developed by four co-inventors: Hyen-Vui Chung, Takahide Nogayama, Toshiro Takase, and Kenichiro Ueno.
  • The inventive subject matter relates to a message gateway apparatus that can process a message containing a request for a destination web service application.
  • The apparatus comprises a message parsing module, an input object creation module, and a message filtering module that analyze and process security protocols within the message.
  • The input object creation module constructs an input object, including input parameters for the destination web service application, based on the message.
  • The patent application was filed on June 29, 2007 (11/771,350), and the full-text of the patent can be found on the USPTO website.
  • The filtering technique is designed to analyze the name of each event in the message and perform security processing on the content of each event for which the corresponding name indicates that security measures have been applied according to a security protocol.
  • The message gateway apparatus is part of a web service system that can process a message containing a request for a destination web service application.

Statistics:

  • The patent was granted on April 29, 2012 (7,934,252).
  • The patent application was filed on June 29, 2007 (11/771,350).
  • The patent includes a detailed explanation of the filtering technique, including the use of a message parsing module, an input object creation module, and a message filtering module.

Sources:

  • IBM (International Business Machines)
  • US Patent and Trademark Office (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published the patent)
  • Patent Full-Text and Image Database (PTO)
  • Satyaban Rath (author of the article)
  • Hemanta Panigrahi (editor of the article)
  • USPTO website (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=10&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110426.PD.&s2=%28NY.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/26/2011+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/04/26/2011+AND+AS/NY)