Patents Assigned to NetIQ Corporation
  • Patent number: 11606352
    Abstract: A Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) validator is interposed between a principal and a network service. The validator interacts with a mobile application (app) on the mobile device associated with the principal to dynamically supply a validator secret. The secret and, perhaps, other information are processed by the app to generate a TOTP when the principal attempts to access a protected resource of the network service. The validator independently generates the TOTP and compares the app generated TOTP, and on a successful match, a principal's access device is redirected for access to the protected resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Duane Fredrick Buss, Larry Hal Henderson
  • Patent number: 11038873
    Abstract: A Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) validator is interposed between a principal and a network service. The validator interacts with a mobile application (app) on the mobile device associated with the principal to dynamically supply a validator secret. The secret and, perhaps, other information are processed by the app to generate a TOTP when the principal attempts to access a protected resource of the network service. The validator independently generates the TOTP and compares the app generated TOTP, and on a successful match, a principal's access device is redirected for access to the protected resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Duane Fredrick Buss, Larry Hal Henderson
  • Patent number: 10936657
    Abstract: In some examples, a computer receives event data relating to events of a system, and builds a graph comprising nodes representing respective values of attributes of the events, and edges between the nodes, each respective edge of the edges representing co-occurrence of values of attributes represented by nodes connected by the respective edge. The computer computes edge weights of corresponding edges of the edges, and identifies paths in the graph, where each path of the paths comprises two or more nodes and a corresponding edge or edges. The computer determines an affinity among the values of the attributes based on a shortest path determining process that uses the edge weights for distances of the identified paths, and resolves an anomaly in the system based on the determined affinity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Netiq Corporation
    Inventors: Roger Huebner, Polina Alber
  • Patent number: 10817614
    Abstract: A pool of files are analyzed for relationships between the files. At least some of the files in the pool are encrypted files. The relationships are represented by distances between the files plotted on a graph in two or more dimensions. A point on the graph representing a particular file. The graph includes an interactive interface, such that points or clusters of points can be selected for re-analyzing and re-plotting on a refreshed graph for just those selected points or clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Baha Masoud
  • Patent number: 10798068
    Abstract: A secure server detects a login from a user originating from a first device. A second user-registered device is sent a message. The second device: translates the message into light-based communication that is captured by a camera of the first device, translates the message back into the original message, and sends the translated message to the secure server. The secure server authenticates the message and sends an indication to the first device that the second device is permitted to access the first device. In an embodiment, information passed between the first and second devices continue using light-based communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Baha Masoud
  • Patent number: 10530763
    Abstract: A late-binding token (LBT) is securely generated and provided to a device application. When the LBT is presented and validated, a resource associated with the presentation is bound to the LBT and authenticated for access to a service and provided valid credentials for accessing that service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Atul Mahajan, Stuart Jensen, Baha Masoud
  • Patent number: 10454902
    Abstract: Techniques for secure data extraction in a virtual or cloud environment are presented. Desired data from a Virtual Machine (VM) or an entire VM is extracted and encrypted with a key. This key is sealed to a machine or a group of machines. The encrypted data is then migrated and successfully used on startup for instances of the VM by having the ability to access the sealed key (and unsealing it) to decrypt the encrypted data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Michael F. Angelo, Lloyd Leon Burch
  • Patent number: 10432619
    Abstract: An app of a mobile device registers the mobile device for a remote credential server (RCS) and receives a device token. When a credential for a remote asset is supplied on the mobile device it is routed to the RCS and stored external to the mobile device but referenced on the mobile device via an asset token. When the credential is needed, the device token and the asset token permit the RCS to authenticate and return the credential to or on behalf of the mobile device so that the mobile device can authenticate to and access the remote asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Michael F. Angelo, Baha Masoud
  • Patent number: 10380331
    Abstract: Multi-touch groupings of characters are detected for device authentication and access. In an embodiment, one or more non-character based factors are used in combination with an inputted authentication code (character based) for device authentication and access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Baha Masoud
  • Patent number: 10305995
    Abstract: Techniques for device independent session migration are presented. A secure mechanism is presented for a target device to receive a current authenticated communication session from an original device with minimal user interaction while automated security is enforced during session migration. In an embodiment, the target device is a mobile device and the original device is a desktop; the target device captures a data glyph that is visually presented on a display of the original device and the data glyph is then seamlessly communicated to a server manager for authentication and session migration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Baha Masoud, Michael F. Angelo
  • Patent number: 10270741
    Abstract: A user of a system defines a limited use access token for an external user for that external user to access defined resources of the system based on the user's account with the system. An access control system validates the access token when the external user attempts to access the defined resources and grants the external principal access to the defined resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Robert Skousen Stilmar, Duane Fredrick Buss, Baha Masoud
  • Patent number: 10171470
    Abstract: Techniques for secure debugging and monitoring are presented. An end user requests a secure token for logging information with a remote service. A secure monitoring and debugging token service provides the secure token. The remote service validates the secure token and configures itself for capturing information and reporting the captured information based on the secure token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Carolyn B. McClain, Robert Skousen Stilmar, Dipto Chakravarty, Baha Masoud, Michael F. Angelo
  • Patent number: 10097994
    Abstract: Techniques for resetting authentication for touch-enabled devices are presented. When a user authenticates to a mobile device a touch profile (TP) is recorded. Each subsequent time the user unlocks a locked mobile device via touch, a new TP is noted. The new TP is compared to the recorded TP and if the deviation is within an acceptable tolerance, the user is permitted access to the mobile device without re-authentication. When the new TP is not within the acceptable tolerance of the recorded TP, the user is forced to re-authenticate before access is granted to the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Michael F. Angelo, Baha Masoud
  • Patent number: 10084773
    Abstract: A Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) validator is interposed between a principal and a network service. The validator interacts with a mobile application (app) on the mobile device associated with the principal to dynamically supply a validator secret. The secret and, perhaps, other information are processed by the app to generate a TOTP when the principal attempts to access a protected resource of the network service. The validator independently generates the TOTP and compares the app generated TOTP, and on a successful match, a principal's access device is redirected for access to the protected resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Duane Fredrick Buss, Larry Hal Henderson
  • Patent number: 9998430
    Abstract: A secure server detects a login from a user originating from a first device. A second user-registered device is sent a message. The second device: translates the message into light-based communication that is captured by a camera of the first device, translates the message back into the original message, and sends the translated message to the secure server. The secure server authenticates the message and sends an indication to the first device that the second device is permitted to access the first device. In an embodiment, information passed between the first and second devices continue using light-based communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Baha Masoud
  • Patent number: 9942751
    Abstract: At least two mobile devices introduce one another and select data for transfer to and receipt by at least one receiving mobile device using audio communications. Each of the devices uses its speaker(s) and its microphone to introduce and select the data. Once secure audio communications are confirmed between the devices, the selected data is acquired by the at least one receiving mobile device using audio communications or a different out-of-band communication wired or wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Baha Masoud
  • Patent number: 9917832
    Abstract: An app of a mobile device registers the mobile device for a remote credential server (RCS) and receives a device token. When a credential for a remote asset is supplied on the mobile device it is routed to the RCS and stored external to the mobile device but referenced on the mobile device via an asset token. When the credential is needed, the device token and the asset token permit the RCS to authenticate and return the credential to or on behalf of the mobile device so that the mobile device can authenticate to and access the remote asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Michael F. Angelo, Baha Masoud
  • Patent number: 9843490
    Abstract: Techniques for inserting analytic logic into network requests are presented. In an embodiment, instructions are dynamically inserted into web pages as the pages are requested. The instructions enable analytics to be captured and/or tracked when the web pages are processed. In another embodiment, web requests are intercepted and processed to include analytic instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Duane Fredrick Buss
  • Patent number: 9779237
    Abstract: Policies are communicated to a kernel service of an Operating System (OS) that define resource identifiers and events. When an event is received (from the kernel service) for a resource, the event is noted. Subsequent events received (from the kernel service) are: tracked, evaluated, and a determination is made whether a near real-time or real-time notification is to be sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: David Henry Littlejohn, Stuart Richard Kemp, Roger Glenn Huebner
  • Patent number: 9723007
    Abstract: Techniques for secure debugging and monitoring are presented. An end user requests a secure token for logging information with a remote service. A secure monitoring and debugging token service provides the secure token. The remote service validates the secure token and configures itself for capturing information and reporting the captured information based on the secure token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Carolyn B. McClain, Robert Skousen Stilmar, Dipto Chakravarty, Baha Masoud, Michael F. Angelo