Patents by Inventor Xu Clark YANG

Xu Clark YANG 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).

  • Mobile application security and management service
    Patent number: 8832840
    Abstract: A system is configured to receive a list of applications installed on a user device; obtain application profiles that identify risk levels associated with the applications; obtain a user profile that identifies a job level, security risk level, or an access level to confidential information associated with the user of the user device; identify a highest risk level authorized for the user device based on whether the job level is greater than a first threshold, the security risk level is greater than a second threshold, or the access level is greater than a third threshold; determine whether any of the risk levels are greater than the highest risk level; and transmit a notification that one of the applications is to be removed from the user device when one of the risk levels, associated with the one of the applications, is greater than the highest risk level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Fang Julie Zhu, Xu Clark Yang, Jack Jianxiu Hao
  • MOBILE APPLICATION SECURITY AND MANAGEMENT SERVICE
    Publication number: 20130111592
    Abstract: A system is configured to receive a list of applications installed on a user device; obtain application profiles that identify risk levels associated with the applications; obtain a user profile that identifies a job level, security risk level, or an access level to confidential information associated with the user of the user device; identify a highest risk level authorized for the user device based on whether the job level is greater than a first threshold, the security risk level is greater than a second threshold, or the access level is greater than a third threshold; determine whether any of the risk levels are greater than the highest risk level; and transmit a notification that one of the applications is to be removed from the user device when one of the risk levels, associated with the one of the applications, is greater than the highest risk level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING, INC.
    Inventors: Fang Julie ZHU, Xu Clark YANG, Jack Jianxiu HAO