Patents by Inventor David William Cowden

David William Cowden has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Methods and systems for detecting and preventing network connection compromise
    Patent number: 10440053
    Abstract: The security of network connections on a computing device is protected by detecting and preventing compromise of the network connections, including man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. Active probing and other methods are used to detect the attacks. Responses to detection include one or more of displaying a warning to a user of the computing device, providing an option to disconnect the network connection, blocking the network connection, switching to a different network connection, applying a policy, and sending anomaly information to a security server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: LOOKOUT, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy Micheal Wyatt, Brian James Buck, David William Cowden, Nitin Shridhar Desai, Prasad Deshpande, Robert Blaine Elwell
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING AND PREVENTING NETWORK CONNECTION COMPROMISE
    Publication number: 20170346853
    Abstract: The security of network connections on a computing device is protected by detecting and preventing compromise of the network connections, including man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. Active probing and other methods are used to detect the attacks. Responses to detection include one or more of displaying a warning to a user of the computing device, providing an option to disconnect the network connection, blocking the network connection, switching to a different network connection, applying a policy, and sending anomaly information to a security server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: LOOKOUT, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy Micheal Wyatt, David Luke Richardson, Kevin Patrick Mahaffey, Brian James Buck, William Neil Robinson, David William Cowden, Nitin Shridhar Desai, Prasad Deshpande, Robert Blaine Elwell, Eike Christian Falkenberg, Meng Hu, Alex Shoykhet