Patents by Inventor Alexis Floyd

Alexis Floyd has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Security verification by message interception and modification
    Patent number: 10574686
    Abstract: A first computer is selected for testing. Information sent from a second computer system to the first computer is intercepted. The information is modified to be noncompliant with a communication protocol, thereby producing noncompliant information. A determination is made whether the first computer device has failed to provide a particular response to receipt of the noncompliant information, and an operation is performed based at least in part on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nima Sharifi Mehr, Christopher Dunn, Alexis Floyd, David James Kane-Parry, Volker Helmut Mosthaf, Christopher Gordon Williams
  • SECURITY VERIFICATION BY MESSAGE INTERCEPTION AND MODIFICATION
    Publication number: 20190124110
    Abstract: A first computer is selected for testing. Information sent from a second computer system to the first computer is intercepted. The information is modified to be noncompliant with a communication protocol, thereby producing noncompliant information. A determination is made whether the first computer device has failed to provide a particular response to receipt of the noncompliant information, and an operation is performed based at least in part on the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Nima Sharifi Mehr, Christopher Dunn, Alexis Floyd, David James Kane-Parry, Volker Helmut Mosthaf, Christopher Gordon Williams
  • Security verification by message interception and modification
    Patent number: 10164997
    Abstract: A first computer is selected for testing. Information sent from a second computer system to the first computer is intercepted. The information is modified to be noncompliant with a communication protocol, thereby producing noncompliant information. A determination is made whether the first computer device has failed to provide a particular response to receipt of the noncompliant information, and an operation is performed based at least in part on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nima Sharifi Mehr, Christopher Dunn, Alexis Floyd, David James Kane-Parry, Volker Helmut Mosthaf, Christopher Gordon Williams
  • SECURITY VERIFICATION BY MESSAGE INTERCEPTION AND MODIFICATION
    Publication number: 20170149817
    Abstract: A first computer is selected for testing. Information sent from a second computer system to the first computer is intercepted. The information is modified to be noncompliant with a communication protocol, thereby producing noncompliant information. A determination is made whether the first computer device has failed to provide a particular response to receipt of the noncompliant information, and an operation is performed based at least in part on the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Nima Sharifi Mehr, Christopher Dunn, Alexis Floyd, David James Kane-Parry, Volker Helmut Mosthaf, Christopher Gordon Williams
  • Security verification by message interception and modification
    Patent number: 9571465
    Abstract: Data security is enhanced by injecting insecurity into communications between two computer systems to test one of the computer systems. The insecurity is injected by modifying the communications between the two computer systems by modifying or adding messages. A response from one of the computer systems is monitored to determine whether the computer system reacts to the modification in a secure manner or if mitigating actions need to be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nima Sharifi Mehr, Christopher Dunn, Alexis Floyd, David James Kane-Parry, Volker Helmut Mosthaf, Christopher Gordon Williams