Patents by Inventor Susann Marie Koehane

Susann Marie Koehane 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).

  • Publication number: 20090208002
    Abstract: Replay attacks in an encrypted file system are prevented by generating a session key and providing the session key to one or more drive managers and an encrypted file system process. When a drive request is received by the encrypted file system process the drive request is encrypted using the generated session key. The encrypted drive request is sent to a drive manager. The drive manager attempts to decrypt the drive request using the session key. If the encrypted drive request is successfully decrypted, then the drive manager performs the requested operation. On the other hand, if the request is not decrypted successfully, then the request is not performed by the drive manager. Drive managers can include both disk device drivers and a logical volume managers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventors: Susann Marie Koehane, Gerald Francis McBrearty, Jessica Carol Murillo, Shawn Patrick Mullen, Johnny Meng-Han Shieh
  • Patent number: 7496847
    Abstract: Displaying a computer resource through a preferred browser, including invoking a URL that identifies a computer resource; identifying, among a plurality of available browsers, a preferred browser for the resource; and displaying the resource through the preferred browser. Typical embodiments also include storing the URL in association with an identification of the preferred browser. In such embodiments, identifying a preferred browser for the resource also includes identifying the preferred browser in dependence upon the URL. Identifying the preferred browser may include requesting the resource through a default browser and receiving the resource in the default browser, the resource having meta-data comprising an identification of the preferred browser. Such embodiments also typically include storing the URL in association with the identification of the preferred browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Susann Marie Koehane, Gerald Francis McBrearty, Shawn Patrick Mullen, Jessica Murillo, Johnny Meng-Han Shieh