Yaniv Shapira

Title: Yaniv Shapira: Networking and Search-Processing Inventions.

Introduction

Yaniv Shapira is an inventor based in Bet Dagan, Israel. His work includes inventions related to virtual private network security and high-speed string searching. He is associated with Telecom Italia and holds 2 patents.

Latest Patents

Shapira’s patent, “Virtual Private Network Mechanism Incorporating Security Association Processor,” describes a VPN mechanism designed to manage security parameters for encryption, decryption, and authentication. Its security association database stores the information needed to process VPN packets in accordance with the IPSec specifications.

His patent, “Apparatus for and Method of Multiple Parallel String Searching,” covers a system for searching an input character stream for multiple predetermined strings at the same time. The method divides strings into shorter substrings, organizes them in tables using hash values, and identifies a string when its substrings appear consecutively in the correct order.

Career Highlights

Shapira’s listed inventions address two distinct technical challenges: managing security operations for VPN communications and efficiently detecting multiple strings in a stream of characters. His association with Telecom Italia provides a professional context for this work in communications technology.

Collaborations

Drory Shohat and Moshe Zezak are identified as Shapira’s coworkers. Their names are provided as professional associations, without further details about their roles in the patents.

Conclusion

Yaniv Shapira’s patent portfolio reflects contributions to network security and parallel string-searching methods, with applications in secure communications and data processing.