Patents Represented by Attorney Krist T. Fredrick
  • Patent number: 7421738
    Abstract: A skeptical system protects an asset by monitoring commands of a user, predicting a plan of the user based on the monitored commands, inferring an actual plan from the predicted plan, receiving information related to an identity of the user, inferring an actual identity of the user from the information, assessing a threat based on the actual plan and the actual user identity, and selecting, from among a plurality of possible responses, a response that is appropriate to the assessed threat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Steven A. Harp, Christopher W. Geib