Patents by Inventor Gregory Whiteside

Gregory Whiteside 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).

  • Automatic log-in and log-out of a session with session sharing
    Patent number: 10356071
    Abstract: A technique allows for transparently managing, suspending, restoring, sharing, limiting and migrating user sessions on a device without having access to user credentials. A user may automatically log in and out of each or all their online accounts instantaneously and, in doing so, the user may share sessions without sharing passwords across client devices as well as with other authenticated and authorized users. Sharing may be done in a secure manner with the initiating-user being able to restrict shared session rights, as well as being able to remove access to each of the shared sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Whiteside, Richard Bruno, Richard Reiner
  • Account recovery protocol
    Patent number: 10061914
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to receiving a request for recovery of an account associated with a user, sending a CAPTCHA challenge to a user device associated with the user, receiving an answer to the CAPTCHA challenge and a confirmation code wrapped by an encryption key derived from a provisional master password, sending a notification of the request for recovery to one or more trusted entities associated with the user, and receiving a confirmation of the request from one or more of the trusted entities. The confirmation includes a recovery token associated with the particular trusted entity and an encrypted confirmation code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: François Proulx, Richard Reiner, Mathieu René, Gregory Whiteside
  • AUTOMATIC LOG-IN AND LOG-OUT OF A SESSION WITH SESSION SHARING`
    Publication number: 20170093835
    Abstract: A technique allows for transparently managing, suspending, restoring, sharing, limiting and migrating user sessions on a device without having access to user credentials. A user may automatically log in and out of each or all their online accounts instantaneously and, in doing so, the user may share sessions without sharing passwords across client devices as well as with other authenticated and authorized users. Sharing may be done in a secure manner with the initiating-user being able to restrict shared session rights, as well as being able to remove access to each of the shared sessions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2014
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: GREGORY WHITESIDE, RICHARD BRUNO, RICHARD REINER
  • ACCOUNT RECOVERY PROTOCOL
    Publication number: 20160140335
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to receiving a request for recovery of an account associated with a user, sending a CAPTCHA challenge to a user device associated with the user, receiving an answer to the CAPTCHA challenge and a confirmation code wrapped by an encryption key derived from a provisional master password, sending a notification of the request for recovery to one or more trusted entities associated with the user, and receiving a confirmation of the request from one or more of the trusted entities. The confirmation includes a recovery token associated with the particular trusted entity and an encrypted confirmation code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: McAfee, Inc.
    Inventors: François Proulx, Richard Reiner, Mathieu René, Gregory Whiteside