Patents by Inventor Paul R. Spear

Paul R. Spear 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).

  • Patent number: 9430647
    Abstract: Technologies for self-regulation for virtualized environments may include, by a virtual machine on an electronic device, detecting an attempted anti-malware operation by a monitored module, determining anti-malware operation levels of one or more other virtual machines on the electronic device, and, based on the attempted anti-malware operation and upon the anti-malware operation levels, determining whether to allow the attempted operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: McAfee, Inc.
    Inventors: Ron Gallella, Virginia Robbins, Ben Sherwood, Joseph Dodge, Paul R. Spear
  • Publication number: 20140283077
    Abstract: Technologies for self-regulation for virtualized environments may include, by a virtual machine on an electronic device, detecting an attempted anti-malware operation by a monitored module, determining anti-malware operation levels of one or more other virtual machines on the electronic device, and, based on the attempted anti-malware operation and upon the anti-malware operation levels, determining whether to allow the attempted operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Ron Gallella, Virginia Robbins, Ben Sherwood, Joseph Dodge, Paul R. Spear
  • Publication number: 20080120699
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for controlling access to a network that adds a new type of policy and new types of mitigation based on profiles of historical information about what the device did since last connected. This historical information will be used to create a historical based risk profile to determine whether or not to grant a device access to the network. A method for controlling access to a network comprises the steps of detecting that a device is attempting to obtain access to the network, examining historical information relating to behavior of the device while the device was not accessing the network, and determining whether to grant access to the network based on the historical information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventor: Paul R. Spear
  • Patent number: 7197638
    Abstract: A machine system includes access-constraining mechanisms for protecting the information of certain classes of files from unauthorized intelligible access or from other kinds of access by way of requests supplied from unauthorized classes of programs which may be made at unauthorized periods of time and/or from unauthorized locations and/or under association with unauthorized users. Permission rules are provided for what constitutes an unauthorized access attempt for intelligible or another kind of access to the data of a given file. The given file may be a native one stored in a local machine or an external file stored in a remote server and/or on easily removable media. The machine system includes localizing means for Transparently and Temporarily Localizing (TTL'ing) external files and their respective access permission rules so that such may be processed within relatively physically-secure confines of the local machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: David Grawrock, Cameron W. Cotrill, Paul R. Spear, Paul Puttonen