Patents Assigned to Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
  • Publication number: 20140133001
    Abstract: A method and device for optimal processing of a plurality of sets of coherent states of lights. The method includes: receiving a light having a coherent state; splitting the coherent state into a plurality of identical states (slices), each a coherent state with lower intensity than that of the received coherent state; transferring the information of each of the identical coherent states into a qubit; compressing the quantum information of the qubit into a quantum memory; and quantum processing the quantum information from the quantum memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
    Inventor: RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
  • Publication number: 20140126824
    Abstract: A computationally efficient approach to determining inner products between feature vectors is provided that eliminates or reduces the need for multiplication, and more specifically, provides an efficient and accurate basis selection for techniques such as Orthogonal Matching Pursuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Shiv N. Vitaladevuni, Pradeep Natarajan, Rohit Prasad, Premkumar Natarajan
  • Publication number: 20140126817
    Abstract: Distributional information for a set of ? vectors is determined using a sparse basis selection approach to representing an input image or video. In some examples, this distributional information is used for a classification task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Shiv N. Vitaladevuni, Pradeep Natarajan, Rohit Prasad, Premkumar Natarajan
  • Publication number: 20140115687
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for increasing the security of computer networks through the use of an Intrusion and Misuse Deterrence System (IMDS) operating on the network. The IMDS is a system that creates a synthetic network complete with synthetic hosts and routers. It is comprised of a network server with associated application software that appears to be a legitimate portion of a real network to a network intruder. The IMDS consequently invites inquiry and entices the intruder away from the real network. Simulated services are configured to appear to be running on virtual clients with globally unique, class ā€œCā€ IP addresses. Since there are no legitimate users of the virtual network simulated by the IMDS, all such activity must be inappropriate and can be treated as such. Consequently, the entire set of transactions by an intruder can be collected and identified rather than just those transactions that meet a predefined attack profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicants: VERIZON CORPORATE SERVICES GROUP INC., RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP., LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Martin F. ROESCH, Ronald J. GULA
  • Publication number: 20140099033
    Abstract: An approach to computation of kernel descriptors is accelerated using precomputed tables. In one aspect, a fast algorithm for kernel descriptor computation that takes O(1) operations per pixel in each patch, based on pre-computed kernel values. This speeds up the kernel descriptor features under consideration, to levels that are comparable with D-SIFT and color SIFT, and two orders of magnitude faster than STIP and HoG3D. In some examples, kernel descriptors are applied to extract gradient, flow and texture based features for video analysis. In tests of the approach on a large database of internet videos used in the TRECVID MED 2011 evaluations, the flow based kernel descriptors are up to two orders of magnitude faster than STIP and HoG3D, and also produce significant performance improvements. Further, using features from multiple color planes produces small but consistent gains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Pradeep Natarajan, Shuang Wu, Rohit Prasad, Premkumar Natarajan
  • Patent number: 8688979
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention reduce the probability of success of a DOS attack on a node receiving packets by decreasing the probability of random collisions of packets sent by a malicious user with those sent by honest users. The probability of random collisions may be reduced in one class of embodiments of the invention by supplementing the identification field of the IP header of each transmitted packet with at least one bit from another field of the header. The probability of random collisions may be reduced in another class of embodiments of the invention by ensuring that packets sent from a transmitting IPsec node to a receiving IPsec node are not fragmented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignees: Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc., Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Craig Partridge, Walter Clark Milliken, David Patrick Mankins
  • Patent number: 8683075
    Abstract: Routing requests for data objects from clients includes receiving a request for a data object from a client, providing content servers capable of serving data objects, determining a server from the content servers, and informing the client of an address associated with the determined server accessible by the selected route. Determining a server includes, for each content server, identifying routes between the content server and the client, determining traversal times for the routes, and selecting a route from among the routes based on the traversal times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignees: Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc., Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Rodney Lance Joffe, Barry A. Dykes, Jason Alan Brittain, Victor Joseph Oppleman, Brian Everett Pettingell, James Joseph Lippard, Ian Burke Vandeventer, Brett Dean Watson, Steven Michael Hotz, Nils Herbert McCarthy
  • Publication number: 20140079316
    Abstract: An approach to segmentation or clustering of a set of elements combines separate procedures and uses training data for those procedures on labeled data. This approach is applied to elements being components of an image of text (e.g., printed or handwritten). In some examples, the elements are connected sets of pixels. In images of text, the clusters can correspond to individual lines. The approach provides improved clustering performance as compared to any one of the procedures taken alone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Shiv N. Vitaladevuni, Rohit Prasad, Premkumar Natarajan
  • Publication number: 20140063281
    Abstract: An optical imaging system and method for performing random intensity illumination microscopy is disclosed. The system includes an incoherent signal light source, at least two diffusers having spatially random diffusion patterns, an image capture device that receives a reflected light signal from an object to be imaged, and a processor configured to perform digital image processing of the reflected signal. The method comprises acts of providing an incoherent light signal, diffusing the incoherent light signal with at least two diffusers having spatially random diffusion patterns to provide a diffused light signal, splitting the diffused light signal to provide a first light signal and a second light signal, reflecting the first light signal from a specimen to provide a reflected light signal, collecting the reflected light signal and the second light signal with an image capture device and processing the collected images to determine reflectance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Zachary R. Hoffman, Charles DiMarzio
  • Publication number: 20140059684
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system and method for computer inspection of information objects, for example, executable software applications for common components that may include elements of computer viruses, items from hacker exploit libraries, or other malware components. Information objects may contain identified sequences of instructions, each of which may be identified and hierarchically grouped based on their structural relationship(s). In the software context, programming languages may include multiple components that include functional code; these components are often shared between programmers. In some embodiments, an inspection of the hierarchical relationship of components (e.g., constituent functions) in the information objects may allow for identification of common components shared between programs. In some embodiments, authorship of objects or components in the objects may be identified by comparisons between component samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Daniel Wyschogrod, Steven W. Jilcott, Jonathan Aron Rubin, John O. Everett
  • Patent number: 8659424
    Abstract: A system to detect subsurface activity. The system employs vibration sensor pairs, with each sensor pair having a shallow sensor and a deep sensor. Outputs of the sensors of a pair are processed together and events are detected based on the relative values detected by the sensors of the pair. When signal energy departs from a detected background level, the relative amplitude and frequency content of vibrations measured at the shallow and deep sensors may be compared. The comparison may be performed, at least in part, using a classifier that discriminates between subsurface activity and surface activity. The outputs of sensor pairs may be aggregated to make a determination of whether subsurface activity exists and/or its location. Aggregation may involve comparing the outputs of the same sensor pair at multiple time intervals or may involve comparing the outputs of arrayed sensor pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignees: Raytheon BBN Technologies, Corp., US Army Corps of Enginees
    Inventors: Peter Allen Krumhansl, William Coney, Richard Mullen, Jason R. McKenna, Michael Goldsmith
  • Patent number: 8657235
    Abstract: The systems and methods of the invention modulate atmospheric gases to temporarily increase the amount of atmospheric particles in the path of the debris, in order to decelerate the debris and accelerate natural orbital decay to the point of atmospheric re-entry. In one aspect of the invention, clearing the space debris includes propelling a plume of atmospheric gases substantially orthogonal to the path of the debris such that the debris collides with the gaseous plume as it passes through the plume. Increased atmospheric drag from the gaseous particles of the plume in the path of the debris obstructs a forward propagation of the debris and gradually decelerates the debris, leading eventually to atmospheric recapture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Daniel Alan Gregory, John-Francis Mergen
  • Patent number: 8655640
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventor: Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan
  • Patent number: 8650643
    Abstract: A translator is provided for translating predetermined portions of packet header information including an address of a data packet according to a cipher algorithm keyed by a cipher key derived by a key exchanger. A mapping device is also provided for mapping the address to a host table stored in memory. If the address does not match an entry in the host table, a security device is triggered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignees: Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc., Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Russell Andrew Fink, Matthew Aloysius Brannigan, Shelby Alana Evans, Aswin Morgan Almeida
  • Patent number: 8644611
    Abstract: A method for text recognition includes generating a number of text hypotheses for an image, for example, using an HMM based approach using fixed-width analysis features. For each text hypothesis, one or more segmentations are generated and scored at the segmental level, for example, according to character or character group segments of the text hypothesis. In some embodiments, multiple alternative segmentations are considered for each text hypothesis. In some examples, scores determined in generating the text hypothesis and the segmental score are combined to select an overall text recognition of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Premkumar Natarajan, Rohit Prasad, Richard Schwartz, Krishnakumar Subramanian
  • Publication number: 20140016779
    Abstract: A method for resisting tampering, the method including discovering a plurality of electronic packages for communication, each of the plurality of electronic packages having an associated quantum state table, mapping a plurality of communications paths among the plurality of electronic packages, for each communication path of the plurality of communications paths, making an entry into the quantum state table, negotiating key material for each of the plurality of communications paths, for a plurality of data exchanges along each of the plurality of communications paths generating a key, and encrypting a data exchange on a communications path with the key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
    Inventor: Christopher B. Lirakis
  • Patent number: 8630423
    Abstract: A method for testing a speaker (212) and microphone (216) of a communication device (110) is provided. The method includes playing a first audio signal through the speaker (212) and determining whether the first audio signal is audible. If the first audio signal is audible, the communication device (110) receives a second audio signal through its microphone (216) and plays the second audio signal through the speaker (212). If the second audio signal is audible the method determines that the microphone (216) is properly functioning. Such a method allows the communication device (110) to be quickly and easily tested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignees: Verizon Corporate Service Group Inc., Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventor: Brig Barnum Elliott
  • Publication number: 20140012847
    Abstract: Embodiments of an inspection system and method for a collection of information objects, for example, a collection of executable software applications may be inspected for computer viruses, or a collection of genomes may be inspected for common or unique gene sequences. Information objects may contain identified sequences of instructions, each of which may be labeled with a symbol. In the software context, programming languages may include symbols that indicate functionality. In some embodiments, an inspection of the statistical properties of the information objects and their included symbols may allow for the symbols (and thus instruction sequences) to be grouped into logical components. In some embodiments, objects that include individual logical components may be grouped together. These groupings and their dependencies may be used to determine the structure of each object by detailing its constituent components, how they relate or depend on one another, and how the information object may function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventor: Richard Lee Barnes, II
  • Patent number: 8625605
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for non-uniform per-packet priority marking for use with adaptive protocols is presented. A packet is received at a first network device, the packet assigned to a priority band. A priority is determined for the packet between a lowest priority of the priority band and a highest priority of the priority band, the priority for the packet selected based on a target distribution of priorities within the priority band, the target distribution comprising a distribution selected to achieve a desired capacity relationship among groups of packets assigned to different priority bands. The selected priority is assigned to the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Frank Kastenholtz, Laura Jane Poplawski Ma, Walter Clark Milliken, Gregory Donald Troxel
  • Patent number: 8625598
    Abstract: The disclosed systems and methods provide for the compression and decompression of packet headers. An uncompressed header can be compressed in size to form a smaller, compressed header, such that the compressed header can include values that can be used to re-produce the uncompressed header. A compressed header can include at least two such values. A first value of the at least two values can be computed based on a second, earlier uncompressed header and can be used to derive the uncompressed header. Similarly, a second value of the at least two values can be computed based on a third uncompressed header and can be used to derive the same uncompressed header. Accordingly, the uncompressed header can be derived based on the first value and the second uncompressed header, or based on the second value and the third uncompressed header. The uncompressed header, second uncompressed header, and third uncompressed header can be associated with different packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignees: Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc., Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventor: Brig Barnum Elliott