Patents by Inventor John Patrick Ravenel
John Patrick Ravenel 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).
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Patent number: 9094434Abstract: A prevention-based network auditing system includes a central compliance server providing a user interface allowing a user to schedule and configure a network audit. The configured audit is stored in an audit repository until its scheduled time. At such a time, the compliance server automatically invokes one or more audit servers to gather information about the network. The compliance server receives the gathered information and electronically applies a network policy to the information for determining compliance with the policy. A remediation task may be generated if the policy has been violated, and the task monitored until its completion.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2013Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: McAfee, Inc.Inventors: John Leslie Williams, Brian Costello, John Patrick Ravenel, Stephen J. Ritter, John Pelly, M. Celeste Rutherford, John Payne
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Patent number: 8793763Abstract: A prevention-based network auditing system includes a plurality of heterogeneous information sources gathering information about the network. An audit server invokes the heterogeneous information sources via a uniform communications interface to gather information about the network, and converts the information gathered by the information sources into a normalized data format such as, for example, into XML (Extensible Markup Language). The converted information is then stored in an audit repository for security and regulatory policy assessment, network vulnerability analysis, report generation, and security improvement recommendations.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Preventsys, Inc.Inventors: John Leslie Williams, Brian Costello, John Patrick Ravenel, Thomas Paul Walpole
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Patent number: 8789140Abstract: A prevention-based network auditing system includes a plurality of heterogeneous information sources gathering information about the network. An audit server invokes the heterogeneous information sources via a uniform communications interface to gather information about the network, and converts the information gathered by the information sources into a normalized data format such as, for example, into XML (Extensible Markup Language). The converted information is then stored in an audit repository for security and regulatory policy assessment, network vulnerability analysis, report generation, and security improvement recommendations.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2011Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Preventsys, Inc.Inventors: John Leslie Williams, Brian Costello, John Patrick Ravenel, Thomas Paul Walpole
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Publication number: 20130347107Abstract: A prevention-based network auditing system includes a central compliance server providing a user interface allowing a user to schedule and configure a network audit. The configured audit is stored in an audit repository until its scheduled time. At such a time, the compliance server automatically invokes one or more audit servers to gather information about the network. The compliance server receives the gathered information and electronically applies a network policy to the information for determining compliance with the policy. A remediation task may be generated if the policy has been violated, and the task monitored until its completion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Inventors: John Leslie Williams, Brian Costello, John Patrick Ravenel, Stephen J. Ritter, John Pelly, M. Celeste Rutherford, John Payne
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Patent number: 8561175Abstract: A prevention-based network auditing system includes a central compliance server providing a user interface allowing a user to schedule and configure a network audit. The configured audit is stored in an audit repository until its scheduled time. At such a time, the compliance server automatically invokes one or more audit servers to gather information about the network. The compliance server receives the gathered information and electronically applies a network policy to the information for determining compliance with the policy. A remediation task may be generated if the policy has been violated, and the task monitored until its completion.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2004Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Preventsys, Inc.Inventors: John Leslie Williams, Brian Costello, John Patrick Ravenel, Stephen J. Ritter, John Pelly, M. Celeste Rutherford, John Payne
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Publication number: 20120079106Abstract: A prevention-based network auditing system includes a plurality of heterogeneous information sources gathering information about the network. An audit server invokes the heterogeneous information sources via a uniform communications interface to gather information about the network, and converts the information gathered by the information sources into a normalized data format such as, for example, into XML (Extensible Markup Language). The converted information is then stored in an audit repository for security and regulatory policy assessment, network vulnerability analysis, report generation, and security improvement recommendations.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Inventors: John Leslie Williams, Brian Costello, John Patrick Ravenel, Thomas Paul Walpole
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Publication number: 20120079107Abstract: A prevention-based network auditing system includes a plurality of heterogeneous information sources gathering information about the network. An audit server invokes the heterogeneous information sources via a uniform communications interface to gather information about the network, and converts the information gathered by the information sources into a normalized data format such as, for example, into XML (Extensible Markup Language). The converted information is then stored in an audit repository for security and regulatory policy assessment, network vulnerability analysis, report generation, and security improvement recommendations.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Inventors: John Leslie Williams, Brian Costello, John Patrick Ravenel, Thomas Paul Walpole
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Patent number: 8091117Abstract: A prevention-based network auditing system includes a plurality of heterogeneous information sources gathering information about the network. An audit server invokes the heterogeneous information sources via a uniform communications interface to gather information about the network, and converts the information gathered by the information sources into a normalized data format such as, for example, into XML (Extensible Markup Language). The converted information is then stored in an audit repository for security and regulatory policy assessment, network vulnerability analysis, report generation, and security improvement recommendations.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2004Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: Preventsys, Inc.Inventors: John Leslie Williams, Brian Costello, John Patrick Ravenel, Thomas Paul Walpoie
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Patent number: 7627891Abstract: A prevention-based network auditing system includes a central compliance server generating network policies and configuring audits of the data communications network. The compliance server presents a graphical user interface (GUI) to describe the specific data gathering parameters, policies to be analyzed, and the schedule of analysis. One or more audit servers strategically deployed around the network employ heterogeneous data-gathering tools to gather information about the network in response to the configured audits, and transmit the gathered information to the compliance server. An audit repository stores the gathered information for use by the compliance server for security and regulatory policy assessment, network vulnerability analysis, report generation, and security improvement recommendations.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2004Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignee: Preventsys, Inc.Inventors: John Leslie Williams, Brian Costello, John Patrick Ravenel, John Payne, Ryan Tadashi Nakawatase, Thomas Paul Walpole, Stephen J. Ritter, John Pelly, M. Celeste Rutherford
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Patent number: 7624422Abstract: A prevention-based network auditing system includes an audit repository storing network information gathered by a plurality of heterogeneous information sources. A semantic normalization module identifies semantic equivalencies in the gathered information, and generates a map listing for each fact gathered by an information source, an equivalent fact or set of facts gathered by each of the other information sources. A network policy is then uniformly applied to the information that is identified as being semantically equivalent.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2004Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: Preventsys, Inc.Inventors: John Leslie Williams, Brian Costello, John Patrick Ravenel, John Pelly, Ryan Tadashi Nakawatase, Thomas Paul Walpole
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Patent number: 7536456Abstract: A prevention-based network auditing system includes a central compliance server storing both natural language policy documents and machine-processable policy rules in an audit repository. The compliance server provides a client-side user interface allowing a user to easily generate a machine-auditable policy by selecting/generating a natural language policy source document, and linking the applicable machine-processable policy rules to the applicable portions of the source document. The selected machine-processable policy rules are then applied to information gathered about the network during a scheduled network audit session for efficiently and systematically determining whether policy violations and/or vulnerabilities exist.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2004Date of Patent: May 19, 2009Assignee: Preventsys, Inc.Inventors: John Leslie Williams, Brian Costello, John Patrick Ravenel, John Payne, Stephen J. Ritter, Ryan Tadashi Nakawatase, John Pelly, M. Celeste Rutherford
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Publication number: 20050008001Abstract: A prevention-based network auditing system includes a plurality of heterogeneous information sources gathering information about the network. An audit server invokes the heterogeneous information sources via a uniform communications interface to gather information about the network, and converts the information gathered by the information sources into a normalized data format such as, for example, into XML (Extensible Markup Language). The converted information is then stored in an audit repository for security and regulatory policy assessment, network vulnerability analysis, report generation, and security improvement recommendations.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2004Publication date: January 13, 2005Inventors: John Leslie Williams, Brian Costello, John Patrick Ravenel, Thomas Paul Walpole