Patents Assigned to Whitestar Communications, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11949717
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises: tracking, by a first security agent executed within a user network device, a plurality of wireless data networks that are available for connection by the user network device for secure communications with a second network device in a secure peer-to-peer data network, and maintaining a history of each of the wireless data networks; determining for each of the wireless data networks, by the first security agent, a corresponding risk assessment that identifies a corresponding risk in encountering a cyber threat on the corresponding wireless data network; and supplying, to a second security agent executed within the user network device, a recommendation for connecting to a wireless data link identified as avoiding the cyber threat during the secure communications, wherein the user network device has a two-way trusted relationship with the second network device in the secure peer-to-peer data network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: WhiteStar Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Billy Gayle Moon
  • Patent number: 11924229
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises: monitoring, by a first security agent executed within a network device, for real-time detection of a cyber threat in the network device, the network device configured for secure communications in a secure peer-to-peer data network, the monitoring including detecting a detected cyber threat; communicating by the first security agent with at least one notified agent about the detected cyber threat, the at least one notified agent one of a second security agent executed within the network device, or a corresponding first security agent in a second network device having a two-way trusted relationship with the network device in the secure peer-to-peer data network; and executing, by the first security agent, a corrective action to at least mitigate the cyber threat based on the communicating with the at least one notified agent of the detected cyber threat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: WhiteStar Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Billy Gayle Moon
  • Patent number: 11924177
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises: generating and maintaining, by a replicator device in a secure peer-to-peer data network, a secure private key and secure public key; establishing a two-way trusted relationship with a second replicator device for a pairwise topology of two-way trusted replicator devices; establishing a two-way trusted relationship with a first endpoint device based on validating a secure attachment request using the secure private key, and obtaining a second secure public key of the first endpoint device; validating, using the second secure public key, a secure data packet from the first endpoint device and destined for the second endpoint device, and obtaining information for reaching the second endpoint device via the second replicator device; and securely signing the secure data packet, received from the first endpoint device and destined for the second endpoint device, into a secure forwarded packet for secure transmission to the second replicator device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: WhiteStar Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Billy Gayle Moon
  • Publication number: 20240056428
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises: generating and maintaining, by a replicator device in a secure peer-to-peer data network, a secure private key and secure public key; establishing a two-way trusted relationship with a second replicator device for a pairwise topology of two-way trusted replicator devices; establishing a two-way trusted relationship with a first endpoint device based on validating a secure attachment request using the secure private key, and obtaining a second secure public key of the first endpoint device; validating, using the second secure public key, a secure data packet from the first endpoint device and destined for the second endpoint device, and obtaining information for reaching the second endpoint device via the second replicator device; and securely signing the secure data packet, received from the first endpoint device and destined for the second endpoint device, into a secure forwarded packet for secure transmission to the second replicator device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: WhiteStar Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: BILLY GAYLE MOON
  • Patent number: 11880496
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises: determining, by an executable resource within a network device, a risk of the network device having been infected by a persistent consistent threat based on the executable resource detecting attributes associated with the network device; and presenting based on the risk, by the executable resource, a recommendation to a user of the network device to execute a prescribed hard reset that erases all data and executable code from a volatile random access memory (RAM) of the network device, the prescribed hard reset causing erasure of any persistent consistent threat residing in the volatile RAM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: WhiteStar Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Billy Gayle Moon
  • Publication number: 20240015010
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises: generating, by a secure executable container executed by an endpoint device in a secure peer-to-peer data network, a secure private key and a first secure public key; first establishing, by the secure executable container, a two-way trusted relationship with a second endpoint device, including receiving a second secure public key of the second endpoint device; second establishing, by the secure executable container, a two-way trusted relationship with a replicator device, including receiving a third secure public key of the replicator device; generating, by the secure executable container using the second secure public key, a secure data packet destined for the second endpoint device, including generating an encrypted payload for the secure data packet; and generating and outputting to the replicator device, by the secure executable container using the third secure public key, a secure tunneled data packet, including encrypting the secure data packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: WhiteStar Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: BILLY GAYLE MOON
  • Patent number: 11870899
    Abstract: Secure access recovery to a network device includes encrypting a user password into an encrypted target password using a secret regenerative key, and adding a one-time password seed and the encrypted target password into a secure recovery container, which is stored securely in the network device and a trusted recovery device. In response to a recovery request, a one-time password can be generated using the one-time password seed to retrieve the encrypted target password from the recovery device. A decrypted recovery password is generated based on executing decryption on an input string based on the secret regenerative key. The encrypted target password, retrieved from the secure recovery container in the network device, is decrypted into a decrypted target password based on the secret regenerative key. Secure access is recovered in response to determining the decrypted recovery password matches at least a part of the decrypted target password.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: WhiteStar Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Billy Gayle Moon, William Victor Moon, Aaron Daniel Fleshner, Christopher Micheal Scalcucci
  • Patent number: 11848763
    Abstract: A secure executable container executed by a network device establishes a two-way trusted relationship in a secure peer-to-peer data network with a network entity, generates a secure key for the network device in the secure peer-to-peer data network, and associates the endpoint device with a federation identifier identifying the user entity in the secure peer-to-peer data network. The secure executable container also: establishes a two-way trusted relationship between the network device and a target network device; obtains, based on the two-way trusted relationship, cohort interface element definition describing commands executable by the target network device; and generates a data object identifying a selected command from the commands and identifying an identifier for the target network device as a subscriber to the data object, causing the target network device to securely retrieve and execute the selected command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: WhiteStar Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Billy Gayle Moon
  • Publication number: 20230403267
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises: receiving, by a secure executable container executed by an endpoint device, a request from an originating entity for initiating a secure peer-to-peer communication with a second network entity via a secure data network, the originating entity and second network entity having established a two-way trusted relationship in the secure data network; processing, by the secure executable container, the request based on providing the originating entity sole and exclusive authority to control the secure peer-to-peer communication, including cryptographically secure termination and removal of the secure peer-to-peer communication from any network device in the secure data network; and initiating, by the secure executable container, the secure peer-to-peer communication by securely sending, to the second network entity via the secure data network, a secure peer-to-peer invitation for the second network entity to join the secure peer-to-peer communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: WhiteStar Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: BILLY GAYLE MOON
  • Patent number: 11841898
    Abstract: A computing device obtains prescribed sequences of code points for respective pictographs (e.g., “emojis”) from a prescribed destination, determines identifiable graphical subcomponents from the prescribed sequence of code points for each pictograph, and maps the identifiable graphical subcomponents into distinct pattern marker types used for generation of a selected pictograph. The mapping includes aggregating selected graphical subcomponents from among the pictographs as distinct options for an identified one of the pattern marker types. The computing device causes display of the pictographs as a grouping together of respective variations relative to a root pictograph that is based on the identified one of the pattern marker types, where the grouping is based on arranging the distinct options for the pattern marker types relative to the root pictograph, enabling a user selection of the selected pictograph within the grouping relative to the root pictograph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: WhiteStar Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Fabian Reddig
  • Publication number: 20230379323
    Abstract: A secure executable container executed by an endpoint device establishes a two-way trusted relationship in a secure peer-to-peer data network with a user entity, generates an endpoint identifier for the endpoint device in the secure peer-to-peer data network, and associates the endpoint device with a federation identifier identifying the user entity in the secure peer-to-peer data network. The secure executable container also: establishes a two-way trusted relationship between the endpoint device and a target network device; securely obtains, via the secure peer-to-peer data network, a user interface element definition describing a user interface element executable by the target network device; and supplies the user interface element definition to a secure keyboard resource executed in the endpoint device, causing the secure keyboard resource to generate a local representation of the user interface element for control of the target network device via the secure keyboard resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: WhiteStar Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: BILLY GAYLE MOON
  • Patent number: 11811755
    Abstract: A secure executable container executed by an endpoint device establishes a two-way trusted relationship in a secure peer-to-peer data network with a user entity, generates an endpoint identifier for the endpoint device in the secure peer-to-peer data network, and associates the endpoint device with a federation identifier identifying the user entity in the secure peer-to-peer data network. The secure executable container also: establishes a two-way trusted relationship between the endpoint device and a target network device; securely obtains, via the secure peer-to-peer data network, a user interface element definition describing a user interface element executable by the target network device; and supplies the user interface element definition to a secure keyboard resource executed in the endpoint device, causing the secure keyboard resource to generate a local representation of the user interface element for control of the target network device via the secure keyboard resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: WhiteStar Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Billy Gayle Moon
  • Patent number: 11792186
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises: receiving, by a secure executable container executed by an endpoint device, a request from an originating entity for initiating a secure peer-to-peer communication with a second network entity via a secure data network, the originating entity and second network entity having established a two-way trusted relationship in the secure data network; processing, by the secure executable container, the request based on providing the originating entity sole and exclusive authority to control the secure peer-to-peer communication, including cryptographically secure termination and removal of the secure peer-to-peer communication from any network device in the secure data network; and initiating, by the secure executable container, the secure peer-to-peer communication by securely sending, to the second network entity via the secure data network, a secure peer-to-peer invitation for the second network entity to join the secure peer-to-peer communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: WhiteStar Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Billy Gayle Moon
  • Publication number: 20230325539
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises: determining, by an executable resource within a network device, a risk of the network device having been infected by a persistent consistent threat based on the executable resource detecting attributes associated with the network device; and presenting based on the risk, by the executable resource, a recommendation to a user of the network device to execute a prescribed hard reset that erases all data and executable code from a volatile random access memory (RAM) of the network device, the prescribed hard reset causing erasure of any persistent consistent threat residing in the volatile RAM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: WhiteStar Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: BILLY GAYLE MOON
  • Patent number: 11784813
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises: generating, by a secure executable container executed by an endpoint device in a secure peer-to-peer data network, a secure private key and a first secure public key; first establishing, by the secure executable container, a two-way trusted relationship with a second endpoint device, including receiving a second secure public key of the second endpoint device; second establishing, by the secure executable container, a two-way trusted relationship with a replicator device, including receiving a third secure public key of the replicator device; generating, by the secure executable container using the second secure public key, a secure data packet destined for the second endpoint device, including generating an encrypted payload for the secure data packet; and generating and outputting to the replicator device, by the secure executable container using the third secure public key, a secure tunneled data packet, including encrypting the secure data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: WhiteStar Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Billy Gayle Moon
  • Patent number: 11768951
    Abstract: The systems and methods of gesture triggered automatic erasure on a private network, comprising: securely connecting, embedding, sending information within one or more secure objects on the first computing device; detecting, by the first computing device, a signal as a zeroization trigger responsive to a user gesture; and sending, by the first computing device via the private network, a message informing the second computing device of the zeroization trigger, the message causing the second computing device to execute automatic erasure of the one or more secure objects stored on the second computing device; wherein: the second computing device belongs to a zeroization group; the message causing each member computing device belonging to the zeroization group to execute the automatic erasure of the one or more secure objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: WHITESTAR COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Billy Gayle Moon
  • Publication number: 20230231909
    Abstract: A secure executable container executed by a network device establishes a two-way trusted relationship in a secure peer-to-peer data network with a network entity, generates a secure key for the network device in the secure peer-to-peer data network, and associates the endpoint device with a federation identifier identifying the user entity in the secure peer-to-peer data network. The secure executable container also: establishes a two-way trusted relationship between the network device and a target network device; obtains, based on the two-way trusted relationship, cohort interface element definition describing commands executable by the target network device; and generates a data object identifying a selected command from the commands and identifying an identifier for the target network device as a subscriber to the data object, causing the target network device to securely retrieve and execute the selected command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: WhiteStar Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: BILLY GAYLE MOON
  • Publication number: 20230231844
    Abstract: A secure executable container executed by an endpoint device establishes a two-way trusted relationship in a secure peer-to-peer data network with a user entity, generates an endpoint identifier for the endpoint device in the secure peer-to-peer data network, and associates the endpoint device with a federation identifier identifying the user entity in the secure peer-to-peer data network. The secure executable container also: establishes a two-way trusted relationship between the endpoint device and a target network device; securely obtains, via the secure peer-to-peer data network, a user interface element definition describing a user interface element executable by the target network device; and supplies the user interface element definition to a secure keyboard resource executed in the endpoint device, causing the secure keyboard resource to generate a local representation of the user interface element for control of the target network device via the secure keyboard resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: WhiteStar Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: BILLY GAYLE MOON
  • Publication number: 20230209345
    Abstract: A secure executable container executed by an endpoint device determines physical attributes associated with the endpoint device reaching destination endpoint devices within a secure data network, and determines destination endpoint attributes for each of the destination endpoint devices. The secure executable container selects one or more of the destination endpoint devices for establishment of a corresponding secure peer-to-peer connection based on the physical attributes relative to the destination endpoint attributes of the one or more destination endpoint devices, each secure peer-to-peer connection bypassing a core network device in the secure data network. The secure executable container selects remaining destination endpoint devices for respective secure hybrid peer-to-peer connections via the core network device, based on the physical attributes relative to the respective destination endpoint attributes of the remaining ones of the destination endpoint devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: WhiteStar Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: BILLY GAYLE MOON
  • Publication number: 20230199001
    Abstract: A secure peer-to-peer streaming media session is initiated in a secure data network based on a secure executable container executed by an endpoint device receiving a request, by an originating entity, for initiating the session with a second network entity having a two-way trusted relationship with the endpoint device in the secure data network via a second network device. The secure executable container: generates a conversation object identifying the second network entity as a participant in the session, and causes secure autonomic synchronization of the conversation object with the second network device; generates a message object and adds a reference to the conversation object; and updates a hypercontent body in the message object with streaming media data received from an executable media source in the endpoint device. The updating causes the second network device to retrieve each update of the streaming media data in the hypercontent body during the session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: WhiteStar Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: BILLY GAYLE MOON, FABIAN REDDIG, AARON DANIEL FLESHNER