US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 14 for "Layered authentication method for managing access to cloud resources" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,888, issued on April 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Layered authentication method for managing access to cloud resources" was invented by Michael G. Varteresian (Lexington, Mass.) and Muzhar S. Khokhar (Shrewsbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed method for managing access to cloud infrastructure include responding to receiving a user request to access a cloud resource, such as a cluster associated with a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance, associated with an entity by performing a layered authentication of the user. The layered authentication includes determining first layer privil...