Method and system for protecting credentials

US9531715B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Skyport Systems, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Robert Stephen Rodgers · Mountain View, US
• William N. Eatherton · San Jose, US
• Michael John Beesley · Atherton, US
• Stefan Dyckerhoff · Palo Alto, US
• Philippe Lacroute · Sunnyvale, US
• Edward Ronald Swierk · Mountain View, US
• Neil Vincent Geraghty · San Francisco, US
• Keith Eric Holleman · Campbell, US
• Thomas J. Giuli · Mountain View, US
• Srivatsan Rajagopal · Cupertino, US
• Paul Edward Fraley · Sunnyvale, US
• Vijay Krishnaji Tapaskar · Palo Alto, US
• Daniel Sergeevich Selifonov · Mountain View, US
• Keith Anthony Low · San Mateo, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 6, 2015
• Grant date: Dec 27, 2016
• Expiry date: May 6, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L63/168
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method and system for accessing local resources. The method includes intercepting, by a proxy, a request from an application to access a local resource, where the application is executing in an application virtual machine (AVM) on a computing device and where the proxy is executing on a service virtual machine (SVM) on the computing device. The method further includes replacing, by the proxy, a placeholder credential in the request with a local resource credential to obtain a second request. The method also includes sending, by the proxy, the second request to the local resource, receiving, by the proxy, a response to the second request from the local resource, and providing the response to the application.