Patents Assigned to BBN Technologies
  • Patent number: 8397082
    Abstract: A method (200) and program (100) for inhibiting attack upon a computer (120) is provided. The address (104) of a process (106) is produced (612), and encrypted (616) to produce an encrypted address (518), which is then stored in memory (128). When needed, the encrypted address (518) is retrieved (702) from memory (128) and decrypted (704) to reproduce the original process address (104). The reproduced process address (104) is then verified (708). If the process address (104) is determined (708) to be valid, i.e., there was no attack, then the process address (104) is placed (712) in the program counter (318), and a valid process (106) is executed. If the process address (104) is determined (708) to be invalid, i.e., there was an attack, then the address (108) of a crash and terminate process (110) is placed (716) in the program counter (318) and the computer (120) crashes. A nonce value (512) may be generated (602) and encrypted (616) and decrypted (704) in conjunction with the process address (104).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignees: Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc., Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventor: Walter Clark Milliken
  • Patent number: 8374645
    Abstract: A hybrid communications link includes a slow, reliable communications link and a fast unreliable communications link. Communication via the hybrid communications link selectively uses both the slow, reliable communications link and the fast, unreliable communications link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignees: Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc., Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventor: Brig Barnum Elliott
  • Publication number: 20130015596
    Abstract: A fabrication system includes a tool-head for manufacturing, a first manipulator and a second manipulator. The first manipulator supports and manipulates an item, and is configured to provide six-axes of movement for positioning of the item relative the tool-head. The second manipulator carries a component and orients the component at a select orientation relative to the item supported on the first manipulator. The tool-head is configured to add material to at least one of the item and the component. The first and second manipulators provide at least six axes of fabrication for the tool-head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicants: iRobot Corporation, Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Annan Michael Mozeika, Aaron Adler, Fusun Yaman-Sirin, Jacob Beal
  • Publication number: 20130014117
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a process request, identifying a current state of a device in which the process request is to be executed, calculating a power consumption associated with an execution of the process request, and assigning an urgency for the process request, where the urgency corresponds to a time-variant parameter to indicate a measure of necessity for the execution of the process request. The method further includes determining whether the execution of the process request can be delayed to a future time or not based on the current state, the power consumption, and the urgency, and causing the execution of the process request, or causing a delay of the execution of the process request to the future time, based on a result of the determining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: John-Francis MERGEN, Joshua N. EDMISON
  • Patent number: 8339581
    Abstract: A quantum-illumination receiver is described comprising a phase-conjugation and mixing system for mixing and/or conjugating the idler beam from an entangled light transmitter and the return beam from the target to produce an output beam that is representative of the presence or absence of the target, a light beam collector for receiving a return light beam from the target region and directing the return light beam from a target region to the phase-conjugation and mixing system input, an optical input for receiving an idler light beam from a transmitter and directing the idler light beam from the transmitter to the phase-conjugation and mixing system, a sensor for measuring the output of the phase-conjugation and mixing system, and a processor to process the output of the sensor to make an determination about the presence of the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Saikat Guha, Zachary Dutton
  • Publication number: 20120324557
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for verifying the integrity of a remote computing device. The system includes a challenge processor in communication with a communication device. The challenge processor selects a challenge from a plurality of challenges for determining the integrity of a computer program on a remote computing device. The challenge is selected in a manner which is substantially unpredictable by the remote computing device. The communication device transmits the challenge to the remote computing device and receives an output of the challenge. The challenge processor is also configured to determine from the output of the challenge whether the integrity of the computer program on the remote computing device has been compromised.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp
    Inventors: Jonathan A. Rubin, John H. Lowry
  • Patent number: 8335224
    Abstract: A data-buffering apparatus (100) having two buffers (206,200) and configured to conserve power is disclosed. When a block of data (202) having a short block length (406?) is to be buffered, the block of data (202) is buffered by a small primary buffer (206) and a large secondary buffer (200) is deactivated. When a block of data (202) having a long block length (406?) is to be buffered, the large secondary buffer (200) is activated and the block of data (202) is buffered by both buffers (206,200). As there are typically many more blocks of data (202) having short block lengths (406?) than long block lengths (406?), the secondary buffer (200) is activated only a small fraction of the time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventor: Walter Clark Milliken
  • Publication number: 20120311691
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for decoy routing and covert channel bonding are described. The decoy routing system includes a client computing device, a decoy router, and a decoy proxy such that packets addressed to a decoy destination are re-routed by the decoy router to a covert destination via the decoy proxy. The decoy routing method may be applied to a covert channel bonding process, in which a plurality of packet data streams are sent to one or more decoy destinations, re-routed appropriately via one or more decoy routers and/or decoy proxies, and assembled together into a single packet data stream at either a decoy proxy, or a final covert destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Josh Forrest Karlin, Gregory Stephen Lauer, Craig Partridge, David Patrick Mankins, William Timothy Strayer
  • Publication number: 20120307595
    Abstract: The systems and methods described herein relate to an airborne shooter detection system having a plurality of sensors coupled to the body of an aircraft such as a helicopter. The sensors are arranged to receive shockwave-only signals. The received signals are analyzed to determine an unambiguous shooter location. The analysis may include measuring the arrival times of the shockwaves of projectiles at each of the sensors, determining the differences in the arrival times among sensors, computing a set of ambiguous solutions corresponding to a shooter, and clustering this set of solutions to determine the unambiguous shooter location. The systems and methods described herein may also be used to determine if multiple shooters are present, and subsequently determine the shooter locations for each of the multiple shooters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: James Edwin Barger, Richard James Mullen, Daniel Ramsay Cruthirds, Ronald Bruce Coleman
  • Patent number: 8320217
    Abstract: The systems and methods described herein relate to an airborne shooter detection system having a plurality of sensors coupled to the body of an aircraft such as a helicopter. The sensors are arranged to receive shockwave-only signals. The received signals are analyzed to determine an unambiguous shooter location. The analysis may include measuring the arrival times of the shockwaves of projectiles at each of the sensors, determining the differences in the arrival times among sensors, computing a set of ambiguous solutions corresponding to a shooter, and clustering this set of solutions to determine the unambiguous shooter location. The systems and methods described herein may also be used to determine if multiple shooters are present, and subsequently determine the shooter locations for each of the multiple shooters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: James Edwin Barger, Richard James Mullen, Daniel Ramsay Cruthirds, Ronald Bruce Coleman
  • Patent number: 8321938
    Abstract: A network analysis architecture provides a suite of complementary logic operable at different temporal and spatial timescales. The distinct temporal and spatial scales define different tiers, each analyzing network events according to predetermined temporal and spatial scales of progressive magnitude. Particular event detection logic may be operable on an immediate temporal scale, while other logic identifies trends over a longer time period. Similarly, different spatial scales are appropriate to different algorithms, as in logic that examines only headers or length of packets, or inspects an entire payload or transferred file. Deployment of logic that is focused on different timing and scope of data allows timely action in the case of readily apparent deviations, and permits longer term analysis for identifying trends that emerge over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: William Timothy Strayer, Walter Milliken, Ronald Joseph Watro
  • Patent number: 8315998
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for searching Semantic Web structured resources and presenting the search results to a user can increase the likelihood that the search can produce meaningful results. An index database can be constructed by parsing literal values from statements from the resources to obtain component words of the literal values, with the index relating the component words to the statements from which they were parsed. A search engine can obtain component words from the database that match search terms in a query prepared by the user and can obtain the related statements for the matching words. A servlet or other application using the search engine and database can obtain predicates, instances, types of said instances, and full literal values of said instances for the related statements. The search results can be presented to the user as a summary of the predicates, instances, types, and full literal values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignees: Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc., Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventor: Michael Anthony Dean
  • Patent number: 8305905
    Abstract: The present invention provides a multinode arrangement that utilizes a plurality of nodes that communicate with each other by RF transmissions and hardwire communications. The use of both hardwire and RF transmission provides the advantages obtained with both forms of transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignees: Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc., Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventor: Jason Keith Redi
  • Publication number: 20120272317
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for detecting a threat to a computing device. The system includes a server and a computing device in communication with the server and configured to browse the Internet. The server receives data indicating a configuration parameter of the computing device and executes an emulation of the computing device that replicates the configuration parameter. The server also receives data relating to the computing device's browsing behavior and replicates the browsing behavior on the emulation. Upon detecting an undesired modification to the emulation of the computing device caused by the replicated browsing behavior, the server automatically generates and outputs an alert related to the undesired modification and related browsing behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp
    Inventors: Jonathan A. Rubin, John H. Lowry
  • Publication number: 20120269067
    Abstract: The present invention increases the available spectrum in a wireless network by sharing existing allocated (and in-use) portions of the RF spectrum in a manner that minimizes the probability of interfering with existing legacy users. Interference temperature-adaptive waveforms, and a variety of physical and media access control protocols for generating waveforms based on measurement and characterization of the local spectrum are provided. The invention measures the local spectrum at a receiving node, generates an optimal waveform profile specifying transmission parameters that will water-fill unused spectrum up to an interference limit without causing harmful interference to primary and legacy transmitters using the same frequency bands, and enables simultaneous transmit and receive modes at multiple transceivers in a wireless network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventor: Jerry D. Burchfiel
  • Patent number: 8290273
    Abstract: Multi-frame persistence of videotext is exploited to mitigate challenges posed by varying characteristics of videotext across frame instances to improve OCR techniques. In some examples, each frame of video is processed to form multiple binary images, and one or more text hypotheses is formed from each binary image. In some examples, one or more combined images are formed from multiple frames processed to form a binary image and a corresponding text hypothesis. The text hypotheses are combined to yield an overall text recognition output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Rohit Prasad, Premkumar Natarajan, Ehry MacRostie
  • Patent number: 8291422
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a process request, identifying a current state of a device in which the process request is to be executed, calculating a power consumption associated with an execution of the process request, and assigning an urgency for the process request, where the urgency corresponds to a time-variant parameter to indicate a measure of necessity for the execution of the process request. The method further includes determining whether the execution of the process request can be delayed to a future time or not based on the current state, the power consumption, and the urgency, and causing the execution of the process request, or causing a delay of the execution of the process request to the future time, based on a result of the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: John-Francis Mergen, Joshua N. Edmison
  • Publication number: 20120230153
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing signals received from at least two sources are described. The two sources may each include an array of sensors. The sensor arrays may be spaced apart on the surface of a body, such as an aircraft, a ground vehicle, or a building. The sensors are configured for receiving signals from the at least two sources indicative of timing information. The timing information may be associated with a shockwave of a projectile and a location processor configured for determining shooter location based on signals output by each of the at least two arrays of sensors is coupled to each of the at least two arrays of sensors. The location processor is configured to compute global time metrics and local reference times associated with each of the sensors and determine shooter location based on a relationship between computed global time metrics and local reference times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Marshall Seth Brinn, Stephen D. Milligan
  • Publication number: 20120226489
    Abstract: An unsupervised boosting strategy is applied to refining automatic word alignment. In some examples, the strategy improves the quality of automatic word alignment, for example for resource poor language pairs, thus improving Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventor: Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan
  • Patent number: 8260817
    Abstract: The invention relates to topic classification systems in which text intervals are represented as proposition trees. Free-text queries and candidate responses are transformed into proposition trees, and a particular candidate response can be matched to a free-text query by transforming the proposition trees of the free-text query into the proposition trees of the candidate responses. Because proposition trees are able to capture semantic information of text intervals, the topic classification system accounts for the relative importance of topic words, for paraphrases and re-wordings, and for omissions and additions. Redundancy of two text intervals can also be identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Elizabeth Megan Boschee, Michael Levit, Marjorie Ruth Freedman