Patents by Inventor Russell T. MACKLER

Russell T. MACKLER 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: 9092427
    Abstract: A secure session of communication between two entities in a network is disclosed. Using client-server terminology, a client sends a connection-request to a server that authenticates the connection-request and transmits a session-request to the client in response. The client reverse-authenticates the session-request and then passively waits to receive a tunnel-request transmitted by the server. The tunnel-request sets up one or more overlapping tunnels between the client and the server to support the desired communications. Each of the tunnels exists only for a specified time and is replaced by another tunnel that is set up after a selected time delay after the start of a previous tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Russell T. Mackler
  • Patent number: 8925059
    Abstract: A network authentication system authenticates a connection-request based on a manner that the connection-request traverses the network. In client-server terminology, a server authenticates a client request for connection by examining one or more sequences of network entities (or network nodes) that form entity-patterns. The client pseudo-randomly selects entities of the network to be redirectors that redirect a received connection-request to further redirectors and/or the server. The client generates a different connection-request for each of the redirectors, and each redirector does the same for each of the further redirectors. This results in substantially unique connection-requests transmitted by each entity of the network in connection with the user request. Thus, redirector patterns are substantially unique and may be used for authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventor: Russell T. Mackler
  • Patent number: 8819777
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for preventing and analyzing network intrusion. The method includes receiving by a network device an initial communication from an entity, determining the entity is not trusted based on the initial communication, and transmitting signals to the entity that are indicative of first disinformation of the network device to hide real information of the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventor: Russell T. Mackler
  • Publication number: 20140040984
    Abstract: A secure session of communication between two entities in a network is disclosed. Using client-server terminology, a client sends a connection-request to a server that authenticates the connection-request and transmits a session-request to the client in response. The client reverse-authenticates the session-request and then passively waits to receive a tunnel-request transmitted by the server. The tunnel-request sets up one or more overlapping tunnels between the client and the server to support the desired communications. Each of the tunnels exists only for a specified time and is replaced by another tunnel that is set up after a selected time delay after the start of a previous tunnel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Russell T. MACKLER
  • Publication number: 20130333009
    Abstract: A network authentication system authenticates a connection-request based on a manner that the connection-request traverses the network. In client-server terminology, a server authenticates a client request for connection by examining one or more sequences of network entities (or network nodes) that form entity-patterns. The client pseudo-randomly selects entities of the network to be redirectors that redirect a received connection-request to further redirectors and/or the server. The client generates a different connection-request for each of the redirectors, and each redirector does the same for each of the further redirectors. This results in substantially unique connection-requests transmitted by each entity of the network in connection with the user request. Thus, redirector patterns are substantially unique and may be used for authentication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Russell T. MACKLER
  • Publication number: 20110302628
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for preventing and analyzing network intrusion. The method includes receiving by a network device an initial communication from an entity, determining the entity is not trusted based on the initial communication, and transmitting signals to the entity that are indicative of first disinformation of the network device to hide real information of the network device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Russell T. MACKLER