Patents by Inventor Jeff Mendonca

Jeff Mendonca 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).

  • Recovery access to secure data
    Patent number: 7644285
    Abstract: A security mechanism affords data recovery engineers the ability to access and recover secure data from user files without knowledge of the user's password. The mechanism uses a launcher application to access the database by establishing a temporary, restricted user session. The launcher application also passes a handle to an industry standard database tool, allowing the data recovery engineer to recover the user file data. The recovered data then can be accessed by the software application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Calum Murray, Jeff Mendonca